response to outside reading from a biography about Genghis Khan
Ever gone hunting? If you have, it's probably been with only a few people at a time. But that isn't how it always was. Once during his campaigns, Genghis Khan led his entire horde (close to 150,000) on a massive hunt. He had his men create a huge circle and close off an area of several hundred square miles. They then closed in and systematically flushed all the animals into one area, and slaughtered them. Barbecue time!
I think we have, in modern times, tried to make hunting harder, so as to hopefully protect dwindling populations of animals. For instance, you aren't allowed to use a five-shot pump shotgun when hunting waterfowl; otherwise it would be easy for a skilled shooter to take down multiple birds.
Funny how it got this way; throughout most of human history, we needed every advantage we could when hunting, and yet now we worry about it being too easy. I guess when wilderness and wildlife begin to disappear among the encroach of civilization, the tables turn, and it becomes nature that needs more help.
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