>>95726295>incan brevityDo we have any idea why the inca coalesced in the first place?
>civilization formationI have heard theories (ironically in art history class of all places) that the Mesopotamian Gods and extreme authoritarian world view was a product of this exact phenomenon. Bronze age tech precluded the use of sophisticated siege weapons and the nature of life in the desert around an unstable flood plain required the formation of absolutist societies with bleak world views. My understanding of the palace economy might be incorrect. However, it seems that this proto-absolutism translated even into the economic spheres. But for the bureaucracy required to enforce their will, I think these peoples would have been the closest thing to a human hive.
>Atlantean civilizationDidn’t pretty much every civilization suddenly figure out how to do agriculture at the same time? As in the peoples in the main civilizational spawning pools all “discovered” it at the same time? This plus megalithic structures make me think that the flood was just an accounting of the beginning and not the original cataclysm that destroyed whoever was organized enough to build those megaliths
