Re: Search for Genez Defining DAFN Behavior...

Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
> 
> R. Steve Walz wrote:
> >
> > Look, I loved Latin and studied it for 5 years, but Rome was the
> > ultimate feudalism, with as many as 2/3rds slaves as its residents.
> > Steve
> 
> The origins of Feudalism as we had it in the Dark Ages was when the
> Romans -- mostly in the Empire in the East, originally -- declared that
> even free citizens must enter the trades and occupations of their
> fathers, couldn't travel farther from their tax-collector than a certain
> distance, etc. In effect, the free citizens became slaves in all but
> name. At the height of the Republic slavery was comparatively rare, and
> as the form of government was exchanged to that of a monarchy and the
> empire expanded, so did slavery, after all one of the main economic
> factors in the Empire was the constant stream of slaves returned to the
> capital from the newly conquered provinces.
> 
> The argument is easily made that one of the reasons that there was so
> little advance in development of mechanism was that it was far cheaper
> to expend slaves than to develop machines. Once the empire was in its
> final collapse and the plagues swept through, there weren't even enough
> people to keep any of the survivors in bondage, and with such
> desperation for manpower combining with such a superfluity of metals
> just lying about, development of mechanism wasn't just economically
> viable, but essential to make up for the lack of labor. And with so many
> minds free to think towards solving their own problems, rather than
> being crushed under some assigned drudgery, of course the Renaissance
> followed..

Recognize that you are talking *White_People* here.  A few thouzand 
milez to the South, no effortz whatzoever were made to advance 
what pazzed for civilization among the DAFNbongo SpearChuckerz...
to the