He argues that the European landmass, without barriers for protection, was locked
into constant warfare the forced organized populations to be well armed in offensive and defensive capabilities and sciences that would constantly make improvements in things like medicine (to increase population) and food technologies (to feed the masses) and so forth.
Not exact matches
The
constant warfare, heavy taxation, and depredations of battle that the poor were obliged to endure for generation after generation threw thousands
into misery and discontent.
It is their consumer demands that have dragged the rest of the planet away from
constant vicious tribal
warfare and made them
into fast developing nations and which have enabled those poorer nations to drastically reduce their natural death rates.