05-26-2020, 12:12 PM
(05-26-2020, 10:21 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: In the case of
humans, this means that at regular intervals there have to be
genocidal wars to kill off enough people so that there will be enough
food and water for the survivors.
If the underlying cause of Crisis wars is population stress, shouldn't that mean that in times of declining population, the wars will be milder or nonexistent?
This question is why I'm interested in whether there were visible generational patterns in the Dark Ages, when population was decreasing due to the Black Plague.
