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eridani

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Fri Feb-08-08 02:48 AM
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73. One other thing to learn from the Haudenosaunee

The Peace-Maker apparently led the way to confederation as an alternative to imperial conquest. AFAIK this is the only known instance in human history that acquiring the ability to store food surpluses (the corn-beans-peppers agricultural foodbasket in this case) did not lead to empire and state-level society.

Our exceptions to the human norm might just one day save our collective asses.

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