Thursday, May 8, 2025

What did farming create for cultures here on earth?

First it tended to create a population explosion. 

For example, though many tribes of Native Americans here in the U.S. and throughout north and South America farmed things like Corn and the Hopis also had Blue corn as well, mostly people in the U.S. before White Settlers from Europe came didn't grow food but mostly stayed hunter Gatherers.

Why is this?

I'm thinking that there were a lot of wide open spaces with things like Buffalo and Deer and Elk and Moose and other things native Americans could eat. So, because the land was rich there wasn't the pressure to grow food.

However, in the middle east there is a lot of desert so there would be greater need to start to grow food and have sheep and cattle or pigs just to stay alive throughout the desert areas. I think this is why they started growing food just so more of their people could survive.

So, the other interesting thing is that it created Kingdoms since people started staying in one place more to grow food (even though herding people) could also travel to some degree with their herds of Sheep or pigs or Cattle also to some degree to better grazing fields.

This also caused changes among herding peoples where those who had lactose intolerance often died during the winters or times where there was nothing else to eat but milk and eventually cheese as well.

So, for example, I come from likely herding people in Scandinavia and Switzerland and Germany mostly and Scotland and so milk is a staple for me even at 77. But, since I'm older I still love cheese but I have to restrict myself now because too much cheese causes constipation when you get older.

So, farming created people staying in one place so this changed tribes from hunter gatherers wandering around all the time to people who stayed in one place more to tend their farms and some of these farms also had herding animals too.

Once you had farms and herding animals then eventually you had castles and such to protect from hunter gatherers wanting to gather your food because they weren't farmers. Or they were farmers but something happened and their farms burned up or something so they had to attack other farmers to survive.

So, farming tended to create many more people and even overpopulation of humans here on earth and also led to herding animals of one kind or another as well.

This then led to kingdoms and armies to protect those farms and farmers from raiders killing them and stealing all their food. So, armies became necessary to protect the farms and the Kings and Potentates that came from all this.

I found this all pretty interesting to study because it changed my own personal survival strategies a lot understanding all this.

What was the main thing that I personally got from all of this?

"Work Smarter Not Harder"

Growing up I watched people in the 1950s die a lot as children and adults mostly from ignorance and PTSD from World war II and before that PTSD from the Great Depression.

People were kind of nuts in the 1950s (all of them) from what they had all been through from about 1929 to 1945 and after and then the Cold War was pretty crazy too.

So, I realized from all these studies that people died because they weren't smart enough to do what might keep them alive longer.

So, if you want to live a long time you have to "Work Smarter not harder".

Many people are hard workers their whole lives and then the die if they have to retire because they never learned to have fun. So, when they retire all they know is work and nothing else. So, realizing that your life is not just work but also entertaining yourself and feeding yourself health food and being around people who are healthy to be around who won't just kill you or cause you to get sick somewhere along the way. Look around you at people who live a really long time and You will see what it takes to keep going through everything in life.

For example, though I have been to college I'm always studying everything I find myself interested in.

I like doing this because I have much more to share not only with myself but with anyone I meet including my family which allows them to live better, happier and longer lives too.

So, "A Love of Learning" about all things in life tends to help you live a longer healthier life too.

So, a good education (or even studying on your own) is often the difference between life or death at any age.

 Thinking enough to survive a long time is a good survival strategy for you and your family and your friends.

If you think like a Slave often you will die as a Slave.

So, if you can, own your own business or businesses.

This is what I did so I could have more time to see the world and meet it's people and to study about everything that interested me regarding humans living here on earth or traveling and visiting or colonizing other worlds or dimensions.

By God's Grace

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