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Jiang's reconstruction of the pagan world depends on farming, which means human survival is exposed to the gods through weather, drought, and crop failure.
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"...have a drought or a huge rainstorm, and all of your crops are gone."
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"...feed six billion people. So if you if you just grow crops, you could feed at most two billion people. OK, the six other..."
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"...crazy, okay? And you throw salt in the land to kill crops. So he looks kind of crazy, but the Greeks understand that this..."
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"...history because i've done a lot of research about like where crops and livestock come from and how that's like been major players in..."
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"...the territory around them, it's mountainous. So they can't really grow crops. But they are able to grow a crop called olives, okay? So..."
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"...to give you more children, as well as help you grow crops. But over time, as civilizations became larger and larger, they started to..."
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"...in one place and you grow your food. You grow your crops. You grow your plants. The second is pastoral where you're going around..."
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"...food is just similar, okay? You're just eating one vegetable, one crop, okay? It's a very limited diet. And also, because of starch, your..."
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"...these farmers have their little small farms, and they grow their crops, but that's not efficient. What if we just got all the farmers..."
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"...a weather crisis, or if there's a disease, then all your crops die off, and then your people die off. Okay? What these planters..."
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"...two problems. The first problem is to make sure that your crops are healthy and you can harvest them in time."
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