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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by Ensorceled on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:13PM (#36047449)
We've had standing armies for almost 3000 years. So, for most of "history".
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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by DubiousPusher on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:25PM (#36047648)
> standing armies

Armies yes. Standing, not so much no. Human history is 100,000-200,000 years. That would be < 3% of human history. To do this, humans had to invent pre-feudal client/vassal networks of specialized food producer and warrior classes. This for the very reason that most humans had to spend most of their time in the act of producing food.

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Re:Elephants may be domesticating themselves by numtel on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:09PM (#36051459)
History is considered to be since the invention of writing. (<10000 years) Anything before that is pre-history.
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