Aavak is Uniting the World In Songs of Syx - Part 6

[@gnaskar]

About Granaries: We've got two separate traditional types of them where I'm from. The Stabbur (literally staff cage) is used for wheat, as well as for meat salting and drying. It's a two story building raised on stilts to keep pests out. The other is Jordkjeller (Earth Basement) which is used to store vegetables, potatoes (we've only had them for a few centuries, but it's still become traditional), and pickled goods. It's buried underground to provide some climate control of goods.

[@aavakafterhours]

Yup, that makes a lot of sense.

[@LordJazzly]

Oh, they have stilt-granaries in cold climates, too? I've only ever seen them in the tropics, and had assumed they were a hot-climate thing. I suppose that makes sense, though; it's not as if rodents are warm-climate exclusive... and if you get snow, then you'd get meltwater flooding as well. Huh! Learn something new every day.

[@redtonicSA]

We have root cellars in North America as well; I don't think there are too many small-scale/traditional types of granary left here (that don't require electricity at least). Structures like spring houses (built around springs or streams for natural refrigeration), ice houses, and cold streams are nearly extinct here.

[@LordJazzly]

2:10 Where the granary goes tends to depend quite heavily upon how self-contained local economies are, and how much of a grain reserve you need to maintain between growing seasons. Medieval and iron-age Europe tended to have granaries near the town market, because almost every good and service could be produced locally, and the climate allowed for a good degree of food security without tight controls on grain. Ancient Egypt, at pretty much the other extreme - had a centralised state granary which backed a domestic grain-stamp economy (driven by the very restricted but also somewhat predictable and highly productive growing season in the Nile valley, and an economy in which developed industry was highly dependent on the movement of specialty goods over long distances), which in turn meant a lot of the largest granary buildings were located in or near important state and administrative centres, like palaces and temples. And physical concerns applied, too - in Mesopotamia, the most important criterion for siting a granary was that it be located as far above the floodplain as was economically feasible, since there's no point in storing food of _any_ kind if moisture gets in and rots it all. Similar thing across the Pacific islands with flooding from tropical monsoons, except there, rats were also a major concern, leading to a variety of amazing stilt-legged buildings with different sorts of physical barriers to climbing animals.

[@IfEnjoinder]

Gimme an S, Gimme a Y, Gimme an X and you know why.

[@Isildor]

Such an amazing series. good job as always. you are one of the best entertainers!

[@corvaxblackfeather6529]

I enjoy the Game a lot, got me a healthy mix of Humans and those Lizards (who are the sole and only fishermen i have) and so far it works well... after i figured out that they don't like Wood Buildings and made them some of Mud ^^ Now i have to figure out how to set up a good Military

[@gavinhanbury6532]

I am rather enjoying this series, esp with the calm narration of operations.

[@avocadowitchknits6629]

Praise St Algorithmus!

[@ZeroPlayerGame]

Hey Aavak, I wanna say thank you for showing me the game, but also curse you :D I'm at the point where I'm avoiding watching the series, because it tempts me to sink just a couple more hours into the damn thing...

[@aavakafterhours]

Ahaha, yurp. It's the best of times, it's the worst of times XD

[@caligo7918]

can't wait to see some science ^^

[@justmeowth9697]

Why the people's faces covered in mud? Is it mud or boils?