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Technology.
Technology arises from an artisan class.
Artisans originally worked to improve immediate food production/food
gathering tools. Their
increasingly specialized function multiplies their ability to invent.
Their inventiveness is their value to the society, and they are
rewarded by food produced by others. Others
use weapons produced by them. Barter
has been institutionalized within the society.
The stable location of the society (dictated by food producing areas
under cultivation) allows artisans to create larger, less portable inventions.
Continuing invention of desirable tools may encourage contact with
neighboring peoples. Such contact
can take two forms: war and barter. If
war, conflict favors those with the better weapons and the increased area
solves the need for more territory for the population explosion.
Or contact may come through barter for better tools.
And physical barter leads to symbolic barter, the creation of a money
economy.