Is technological development the primary catalyst for cultural

>>2584925
The Christianization of Roman and Barbarian Europe would put a dent in that idea.

If by catalyst you mean cause, sometimes.
More often, it is an accelerator.
For example, advancements in communications technology enable faster movement of information and thus directly increases the rate of cultural change.

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>>2584935
Could those ideas have spread as effectively if technology didn't allow for faster modes of transportation?
>>2584943
I meant accelerator. I think what you said about faster movement of information applies to my response to the other person I quoted in this post.

>>2584925
no.
there is no primary catalyst. only many intersecting paths of being and cause, that branch of on their own. Sometimes cultural change manufactures itself in and out without any external elements.
"Cultural Change" is a body without organs.

>>2584943
>>2584953
as an accelerator and significant disruptor, technological development does have a very important influence in cultural mutation.

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>>2584955
How do you propose we study the development of culture then if not by tracing technological development?

>>2584953
As far as I know most missionaries in Europe traveled on foot or on horse, both of which had been around for centuries by this point.

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>>2584974
I don't know enough about that to determine whether you're right or not, but I know they had chariots at the time so it seems possible to me that they would have been used by missionaries.

>>2584992
Chariots are relatively lightwight transports used in war and sports. Though by the time Christianity was around they hadn't been used in war for nearly 800 years.

Carts and wagons make better and more rugged transport vehicles, but these predate even the use of the horse IIRC.

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>>2585016
Thanks for the info.

>>2584966
To reduce culture to a simple process of materialistic technological development means reducing oneself to its own temporally limited perspective who is only framed by materialistic and "scientismic" blinders.

The thing more closely approaching a multipolar and fragmented understanding of a fantastically complex thing like cultural development and human history nowadays is the study of Cliodynamics IMO

>>2585049
>who is
which is*

I should be in bed fml

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>>2585049
>Cliodynamics
Seems interesting, do you have any reading to recommend on the subject?

>>2584925
She could really shuck corn with those dentures

>>2584925

I would say yes, but not as an absolute rule. It could be the other way round f.i.

>>2584925
no. war is

>>2584925

No. That is pure ideology.

Technology matches culture.

>>2584925
read up on base/superstructure theory

>>2584925
It has been for the last 500 years or so, and I think that it will continue to be.

>>2584943
This. Communications are the greatest factor of change in human culture. As communications and travel get faster and cheaper we're pretty much approaching a worldwide "cultural heat death" of humanity.

>>2584925
According to Marx, yes.