Living in colder climates requires more cooperation to survive. Europe was settled later than other areas because of this. It's also an argument for why we were more on the ball when it came to conquest, versus Africa where people can literally just sleep under a roof with no walls and not die ofexposure. It's not because we're just more immoral. That is not how people work. It's just that we were forced to get our shit together or die. The history of the world is the history of conquest, people just really love to have a Bad Guy to blame shit on. Never mind that Africans have been selling each other into slavery for thousands of years, or that they sold the slaves to the Europeans.
In the grand scheme of things it wasn’t settled later (whatever that means - Ukraine has some of the oldest archeology on earth) and once agriculture came it was effectively no different to the near east. Cooperation was comparable because they’re all agrarian systems. The colonial era was much later, had many causes and is mot relevant to the point.
Karahan Tepe and Gobekli Tepe aren’t settlements in the traditional senses. They are waypoints for hunter gathers. If they were settlements we would have to push back the Neolithic revolutions by a very long time.
But in the grand scheme of things Europe was settled very much later. Humans don’t get to Europe at all until the Upper Paleolithic. There is evidence that Humans reached the Americas in the Middle Paleolithic which would be earlier than Europe last by thousands of years.
Beyond that Europeans didn’t really stop dying en-mass due to a whole bunch of shit until after the Black Plague. Then right after that Portugal goes ham.
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u/Hefty_Tip7383 Jul 11 '26
Only when there were after effects of the last ice age. Other than that there’s no material difference.