When people groups come into contact, the two biggest factors are cultural confidence and agricultural technology. Even without losing direct access to land, it’s impossible for a hunter-gatherer culture to outgrow or even complete with an agricultural culture. This considers only people-per-unit-area, notwithstanding the other advantages an agricultural culture usually enjoys
Given favourable circumstances, a more primitive herding or agricultural culture with a strong cultural identity can make gains against a more advanced but socially weaker society - usually by raiding. However, history suggests that such gains are usually temporary
When people groups come into contact, the two biggest factors are cultural confidence and agricultural technology. Even without losing direct access to land, it’s impossible for a hunter-gatherer culture to outgrow or even complete with an agricultural culture. This considers only people-per-unit-area, notwithstanding the other advantages an agricultural culture usually enjoys
Given favourable circumstances, a more primitive herding or agricultural culture with a strong cultural identity can make gains against a more advanced but socially weaker society - usually by raiding. However, history suggests that such gains are usually temporary
“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.” —George Orwell,
1984