Timeline for On a world where everyone is nomadic, how does civilization start?
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The word for humans with no permanent dwelling is "nomadic", not "migratory".
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 19:02 | history | protected | James | ||
| Sep 12, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | talrnu | @TrEs-2b Without knowing more about the climate and agricultural capacity of your planet's polar regions I can't reasonably debate the amount of space at the poles, though I will point to your own comment about the sheer size of planets, as well as the high population density of many real cities, and the likelihood that a world that forces all living things to migrate carefully or die will not have a very large population anyway. As for the example of Earth, we've historically always tended to migrate to and settle in areas where life is easiest so I'm not sure what your point is there. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 13:39 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Martijn The Axial tilt is negligible. The mountains are low relative to Earth due to higher glacial activity. Oceans are almost non existent (except for in the north pole), lakes however are very common, none the size of the Caspian sea, but Great Lakes sized lakes are scattered across the surface, rivers are common to, but mostly from melt water. The Planet is about Earth size, give or take 1000 km. The wideness of the habitable ring depends on the latitude. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 9:39 | comment | added | Martijn | I like the premise, but I have so many questions! Does this world have its axis of r completely perpendicular to its rotation around its star? If it doesn't, winter on the poles might be rather uninhabitable. And what about geographic features? What does migrating entail? Mountain ranges? Oceans? Rivers? Are bodies of water even feasible on this planet? How big is this planet? How wide are the dusk and dawn zones (for total population, population density and gravity)? | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 7:50 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Nomads are not without civilization. For example, if you have to travel 40,000 km in 9 years this makes roughly a speed of 12 km per day, slow enough to take a lot of things with you. And if you go on a ship it's even like being stationary. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 7:05 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @talrnu Planet's are big. And even then, the poles imply could not support such a large population. Finally, following such logic, why wouldn't anyone on Earth live in the poles when life is easier further south? | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 6:34 | comment | added | talrnu | Why wouldn't all people on such a world eventually migrate toward the polar cities? People gravitate toward easier life, especially on such a hard world I'm sure, and e.g. if they're in the northern hemisphere it shouldn't take long to realize trails tending toward the right (north, if the sun sets in the west) see longer and milder afternoons requiring less travel distance. Since there are cities at the poles I assume the extremes there are bearable and preferable to the morning/afternoon and migratory lifestyle. What sane tribe wouldn't end up there? | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Empischon good idea, I'll probably just link them in the questions themselves however, because unlike Anatomically Correct, these questions are about a specific world, not theme. Check back in an hour or so. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 23:31 | answer | added | user121330 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 23:13 | answer | added | Justin Ohms | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 22:59 | answer | added | Justin Ohms | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 18:21 | answer | added | Garrett Fleischer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:49 | answer | added | Dewi Morgan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:41 | answer | added | Maciej | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 16:11 | comment | added | Maciej | A small thought: If this is not Your first question regarding this particular world, maybe it would be nice to give links to other questions. I, for one, am curious about more details, even if at first glance they don't seem to be directly relevant to this question. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 15:46 | answer | added | akaioi | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 15:31 | answer | added | Eth | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 15:01 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 12:46 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 11:54 | answer | added | Halno | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 11:26 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 10:37 | answer | added | Jimmery | timeline score: 17 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:14 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Raditz_35 True, but in the places were civilization spread, it was able to do so by copying the techniques and strategies of the ancient civilizations. That won't work here | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:06 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Raditz_35 the problem there is that no cities can be built outside of the extreme far north. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:05 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @Blckknght Depends where you are in terms of latitude. The equators region lasts around 182 days, while further north in the "Arctic" circle lasts around 730 days. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:03 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | For example in the time of Sumer, we had what I will call a hybrid. There were a lot of migratory people herding goats and so on and some population in cities. This does not answer your question (hence a comment), but maybe you should consider hybrid solutions and how they might work | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 9:02 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | @LioElbammalf The plants either drop seeds along the dawn side or asexually reproduce like vines in the dusk. The plants are more mobile here. But yes, the plants do also use fruits to spread seeds | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 8:57 | answer | added | Alberto Yagos | timeline score: 23 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 8:37 | comment | added | Blckknght | How wide is the habitable zone on each side of the world? That tells you how long individuals can stay in one place, and perhaps how many different camp sites they'd need to use during a full "day" cycle around the world. Does the world have any major oceans? It's hard to imagine stone-age humans (or the animals they'd be preying on) migrating across something like the Atlantic or Pacific every nine years. | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | Lio Elbammalf | Are there native crops which can live all over the planet's surface? | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 7:38 | answer | added | SZCZERZO KŁY | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 7:36 | answer | added | Separatrix | timeline score: 8 | |
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