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Scott's core argument is that early states depended on grain agriculture because grain is easy to tax and store, while non-state ways of life such as hunting and gathering and pastoralism coexisted with early states for a long time and were not rapidly replaced.
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The Other Side of the Agricultural Revolution: How Disease Helped Farmers Defeat Hunter-Gatherers
youtubeDwarkesh Patel10/24/2026
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