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Interesting to see the agriculture versus huntgather dialectic. And also the sedentary versus pastoral dialectic within agriculture.
There are a handful of statist places: Vietnam, China, Italy-Greece and a few others, but mostly anarchs.
Iceland, Madagascar, and New Zealand are virgin to man.
I think the only issue with this map is still the clear European bias for "cultural development." The difference between Iron Age Ireland, with small chiefdoms and farming communities is here classified as "complex farming societies/chiefdoms", and southern China outside of direct Zhou dynasty control is somehow just a "simple farming society" despite also having small chiefdoms and quasi-states is clearly just a case of Euro-centric "oh we're civilised, all of us, even at this time, whilst other people aren't." There's just no world where you can claim that like north-western Russia was a more complex state/culture formation than the quasi-states forming around the Pearl River delta in southern China.
oof yeah they're being really generous with the orange in Europe wtf.