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There are very few advantages to being a hunter gatherer, even less if you are surrounded by agricultural communities. Hunter gatherers have smaller, weaker groups, few assets, no industry, no land …

This would be a matrilocal society, plenty of these exist both historically and today. whether a patriarch can completely trust a male from a foreign family. … Any time you have such a society it is inherently biased against the man marrying in and there are numerous checks and balances as well as rewards. …

Polynesian societies had this, although usually men marrying up rather than women. It wasn't normally allowed but was accomplished a couple of ways. Eloping and then having a child before returnng to …

There have been locales at times that were similar. Kids married early, got pregnant young and did what they could to survive. Nowadays we expect a long learning period of adolescence, but in the thir …

How can this society avoid genetic inbreeding under these circumstances? This has happened even when travel is relatively easy throughout our history. …

80 million + died in World War 2, so a billion is realistic. Anything on that scale would soon become global conflict. There would be no worldwide attempt beyond lipservice to resolve the problem for …

It all comes down to leadership. Ghengis Khan didn't just take a bunch of tribesmen and beat everyone in sight. He took a bunch of tribesmen gave them absolute discipline, changed their way of fightin …

Whether a society puts a taboo of some sort on exposing breasts is another factor. But patriarchy, matriarchy don't make a difference, these cultures had both. …

They would not be sanctioned by either a king, wealthy merchant, nobleman or by the church. Which leaves organised crime and outlaw groups, pretty much the same way it is thought to happen today. …

10 million people, 100 years and a whole hospitable planet to inhabit would break up into groups and soon be at war with each other. I see no reason why this 10 million would remain as one group unde …

But would it really work No we have had terrible and fatal punishments like that for much less than murder historically. It didn't stop people murdering each other. A woman who is in deep post na …

English or French would become dominant over time. You main populations speak them natively and whatever ideals the UN sent them out with 1000 years ago would long have fallen by the wayside. No artif …

After 500 years there would still be plenty of motivation for malcontents, misfits and people banished from settlements to leave society and join the gang just as there is no shortage of gang members and …

This has happened many times in human history. Advancing is done by a tiny minority of inventors who have the social power to make changes. The main demographic doesn't do anything. So plenty of socie …

Hunter gatherers are tied to food sources, so it would depend largely on what is available in the locale. If you live next to the sea you would develop the skills to exploit the sea in winter and cou …