{"id":985,"date":"2019-08-23T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:24:46","slug":"world-building-cultural-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"World Building: Cultural survival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left\">What does it take to ensure a society survives and grows? What makes\none region successful, while another struggles? Why do societies fall? Big\nquestions &#8211; can they be included in a novel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left\">Jared Diamond in his massive and erudite book \u201cCollapse\u201d \u00a0notes several conditions that must be met for a culture to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"351\" src=\"http:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WB-culture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WB-culture.jpg 613w, https:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WB-culture-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Food<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left\">The region must firstly contain arable food crops. Grains such as wheat\nand corn, legumes like beans, lentils and peas. Without these types of food\nplants, an area is doomed to remain subsistence level. With them, and\nagriculture and the beginnings of cities is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Domestic beasts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are only a limited number of animals that can be domesticated,\nand they share the characteristics of being able to cope with humans, being\neasily bred, produce either meat, wool, milk etc. Without beasts such as cows,\npigs, horses, chickens and sheep, a society struggles.&nbsp;I would add in animals\nthat have been human companions \u2013 dogs for hunting and cats for vermin control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Climate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having the plants and animals handy is the first need. The soil and\nclimate must also cooperate, and be predictable enough for humans to develop\nagriculture. If they need to build massive stone circles as well, then that is\na good sign there is enough leisure time to do so, and the society is thriving\nto be able to have the leisure time to think deep thoughts. The first step\ntowards space travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, a society can grow with the right plants, animal and climate. But that may not be enough. Wars happen, but also people unwittingly destroy or are destroyed by gradual change. Climate can also change gradually over generations. In the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century (around 536AD) two volcanic eruptions caused a global cooling. Some of the likely results of this were widespread famine and plague. In Dartmoor, UK during a period of good climate in the Bronze age, tens of thousands of acres were divided up into farmland, only to be abandoned as the climate changed and as the soil degraded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first city Catal Huyuk (7,500BC) in Turkey was successful, but was eventually\nabandoned. Recent studies have pointed to a combination of over exploitation of\nthe environment, over population and signs of violence against individuals\nperhaps due to overcrowding. Likewise, Easter island once had trees, but\nsociety fell with the environment as the last tree was chopped down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RE Howard uses abandoned cities quite often &#8211; dead as a result of war, inbreeding, etc. Often the cities are peopled by the ghosts of the dead, or debased remnants of the original godlike inhabitants, or even taken over by a new race of sentient apes or lizards. Edgar Rice Burroughs also enjoyed the lost cities theme, with Tarzan exploring the Earth\u2019s core and Opar. Mad queens and strange societies people his worlds.\u00a0For a time, lost worlds, journeys to the centre of the Earth and weird creatures and debased humans flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post apocalyptic novels or sci-fi often describe a world debased by pollution, wars and the like. In extreme environments, society itself becomes extreme.\u00a0In various episodes of Star Trek, there are tales of societies fixing the problems of our present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy to become disillusioned by the prospect of change, falling into the pattern that the future is always going to be grim. But in general, the past was a whole lot worse &#8211; harder to live, to survive without disease and pain, and have the time to think deep thoughts. Isn\u2019t that what a book is about &#8211; giving the reader hope, and an escape into a world that is better. Maybe they will shut the book and go out and make a small change in their world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Enjoy this\nblog? Have a think about signing up via my <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/cindytomamichel.com\/?page_id=705\">website<\/a><em> or catch them as they fly around the ether on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CindyTomamichel\">twitter<\/a><em> or <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CindyTomamichel\">facebook<\/a><em>. They will\nstay where they are pinned on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/au.pinterest.com\/cindytomamichel\/\">pinterest<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For those that have not read Druid&#8217;s Portal yet, here is a link to the first chapter of \u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/ydf8qK\">DruidsPortal<\/a><strong> <\/strong><em>and to the second in the series<\/em><strong> <\/strong>Druid\u2019s Portal: The Second Journey<strong>, <\/strong><em>and you can read a preview<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/DruidsPortal2\">here<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Scifi more your thing? Try my short stories in the anthologies<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0763KCC6D\">Quantum Soul<\/a> <em>and<\/em>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07GBH1YNV\/\">Tales from Alternate Earths 2.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you are\nkeen to chat with other scifi peeps, then check out the Knights of the Scifi\nRoundtable <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/scifiroundtable\/\">facebook\ngroup<\/a><em> and subscribe to their newsletter <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/29fb30bca8e4\/update-subscription\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/29fb30bca8e4\/update-subscription<\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Short stories\nand poetry? Try the Rhetoric Askew anthologies<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/154127086X\">Mixed genre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1544676247\/\">Adventure <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1548166812\/\">Romance&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Tired from\nall that thinking? Try a 5 Minute Vacation! <\/em>5 Minute Vacation&nbsp;<em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I also have a newsletter for Multi Genre Readers, with a\nbunch of other talented authors contributing articles. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/27f7d7dffc3c\/multigenrereaders\">Sign up here<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And my own author newsletter, for book news, odd facts,\nrecipes and random freebies. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/AdventureNews\">Sign\nup here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to ensure a society survives and grows? 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