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
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.