Catullan: Difference between revisions

Standard for many M-class worlds:  

- tribes lead to small city-states,

- city states combined into larger economic and political units (kingdoms, empires, republics) by aggression or treaty,

- larger units fractured again as conditions changed (natural disasters making powerful states into weak ones, failures in inherited leadership, technological discoveries providing temporary economic advantages, etc.)  

 

Not all, but most of planet's arable land is within a day's foot travel of coastline, and generally slopes upward from coast into mountains. There are very few plateaus or plains above sea level, and as a consequence naval power rather than infantry was traditionally the dominant means by which control of territory was asserted.

 

Some scholars assert that the necessity to make the most of every single accessible resource in order to survive and progress has contributed to Catullan engineering prowess. Other scholars dispute this, pointing out that on many worlds cultures which develop in warm, welcoming tropical climates have the least pressure to evolve.