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In a similar vein, here's wiki's article on terrace farming in general: Terrace farming wiki Regarding more arid climates: "Terraced paddy fields are used widely in rice, wheat and barley farming in east, south, and southeast Asia, as well as other places. Drier-climate terrace farming is...

The OP specifically mentioned science and theology, and I don't think anything I said ventured into that realm. I simply stated a few historical facts :/ In any case, I was just to using the history of human civilization to illustrate that it is possible for local regions to not have anything...

^ Well, Earth is definitely older than a few thousand years. Human civilization alone is already ~9000 years old if I remember correctly (11,000 if you take the oldest founding date of the Norte Chico civ). As for gaps in the timeline, it's entirely plausible to have dead periods when we're...

The Uncharted series is pretty awesome, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. In regards to RPGs specifically, like others have mentioned Skyrim and Dragon Age 1 are really good for completely different reasons. As for other suggestions, the Mass Effect and Fall Out series could be worth checking out too...

Thanks for the warm welcome :)

Thanks everyone for the responses, lots of great ideas and I will definitely be implementing quite a few of them! I realize I could kind of gloss over the specifics of how this would all work, but I'm trying to have a "physically" accurate fantasy world modeled after our own earth and so was...

Like CupofJoe, I used to be caught up in the whole Tolkienesque elf, dwarf, orc racial conflict. Now I prefer primarily human vs human conflicts with a smattering of fantastical beasts wandering the wilderness (think dinosaur like dragons rather than evil, cunning, sentient dragon guarding a...

Hey everybody, While hammering out my magic system I stumbled upon an issue that I'm having a hard time conceptualizing. Magic in this particular world, in its most basic form, revolves around the commonly used four basic element model. The principles behind how earth, water, and air...

Hi all, New member here. Found this wonderful forum whilst browsing for worldbuilding resources and the discussions here have been extremely helpful as I attempt to fashion a fantasy world of my own! Excited to be here, and I look forward to interacting with you all and helping out where...