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u/mk_gecko · 1 pointr/askscience

Just found an interesting book on Amazon. Have a look at the synopsis

"Constant Battles: Why We Fight"
by Katherine E Register, Steven Le Blanc

u/oggie389 · 1 pointr/HistoryMemes

Its arguable that war is an integral part of civilization, violence as you will. Le Blanc wrote a great book called constant battles,

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Looking at the firs tools used for cultivation ties in to protecting said resources from outside groups. So economics and war are co dependent. A better example of that is of the Roman use of war of fill its coffers. Its prime method of garnering funds was via war until it grew to large and the spoils of war did not match what the treasury needed. The Fed is a result of World War 1, the GI Bill introduced returning soldiers for better education. Conflict is reflecting the boiling point of those issues

u/Oak-80 · 0 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

They never developed writing, did they?

Look at the Mayans and their slave/sacrifice raids. Steven Pinker wrote in 2007, "quantitative body counts—such as the proportion of prehistoric skeletons with ax marks and embedded arrowheads or the proportion of men in a contemporary foraging tribe who die at the hands of other men—suggest that pre-state societies were far more violent than our own." According to Pinker, the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes "got it right" when he called pre-state life a "war of all against all."