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Originally posted by Yorick:
Subsistence cultures. Not just Amerindian. Subsistence involves a respect for the continued balance of the environment, rather than unchecked growth as found in agrarian city cultures.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! They are Subsisting, barely making it, they are not living in harmony with nature they just haven't figured out how to get more out of what they have. They don't have a population growth problem, because a growing population Would harm Nature/Mother Earth/Kota/Ki or what ever they beleive. They don't have population growth problems because they can't gather enough food to feed the extra people. And if they thought another group of nature loving subsistence people were incroaching on their food supply they'd slit the entruders thoats with out blinking. You have to know that when the bow and arrow were invented there was a large population explosion, in peoples using bow&arrows over peoples using spears. Same is true for then the Horse was re-introduced to the Americas the Plains Indians had a large population explosion. Had NATURE SUDDENLY made a change that could now support a larger population amoung the peoples? Did the Buffalo gestation period suddenly shorten so there could be more buffalo? Did Mother nature say to the Indians ok since your over the years were so nice to me I'm going to make more kernels on an ear of corn? "HALE NO"! What happened is the Indians could now get more food/Kill more cute furry creatures to feed more people. They learned if they planted the seeds from the biggest pods of a certain type of grass, they could GET MORE FOOD in the next years crop. They conintued doing this for generations of this grass until it became corn. Check it out you'll see corn came from Central America, Mexico IIRC it was a grass that had large seeds that they could eat. They learned if they drop a seed in the dirt LO & Behold a plant would come up. Wal-la/Eureka/Sha-Zaaaammmmm no more walking around to look for seeds now they could plant the seeds in the ground. Ripping up Mother earth with sticks and stones killing the other non big seed producing grass. Plant their favorite seed, and not have to walk as far to get these seeds.