Questions tagged [culture]
For questions dealing with the customary and artistic characteristics of a society.
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How to name an Ancient Egyptian Prince?
I have created a character and only still need his name. I've spent the past 3-4 hours googling stuff about Ancient Egyptian royal naming conventions, and it's a lot! @_@
The character is a young man (...
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Impacts of matricentric reproductive laws [closed]
My world is a matricentric America that holds men legally responsible for unplanned pregnancies. Roughly, the idea is that if an unplanned pregnancy occurs and the woman does not get an abortion, the ...
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Any natural way that a River can "move" by hundreds of kilometers seasonally
I'm designing a Nomadic culture and I had an interesting concept.
One of the reasons for nomadism is to find resources that "move" annually.
In the case of pastoral nomads, it is to find new ...
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In a fantasy world where people can ride monsters and fantastic beasts, why does the horse still remain in active duty?
A fantasy staple, the fantastic mount (TvTropes). People in Fantasy Land ride giant yellow chickens, giant wolves, giant beetles, caterpilars, ants, and other insects, evolved bears, sharks, miniature ...
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What would modern color wheels look like if the human eye saw fewer/different spectral colors?
The typical human eye can see wavelengths between 350nm and 750nm. In 1666, Isaac Newton used a triangular prism to split a beam of white into a rainbow and then define the first color wheel.
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Are there plausible ways a spacefaring society could develop along feudal lines? [closed]
There are works in science fiction (the Dune saga probably being the most famous of them) where in the future, a space-faring human society has somehow, instead of being a republic (at least in name, ...
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How to eliminate male on male competition? [closed]
What behavioral and biological changes would be needed to make males not fight each other over females and for females to fight each other for males and to not make males expandle and extremely ...
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Can a society completely erase all memory of a predecessor culture’s collapse in only three generations? [closed]
Something bad happened and the world chose to cover the event up by erasing their activities.
My world believes they are survivors/refugees of a "lost civilization" such as the Khmer, and ...
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What are the evolutionary advantages of males wanting females to mate with other males? [closed]
What would cause males to evolve to want the females to mate with other males?
Males use mate sharing as a bonding method for males and to combine their bloodlines with unrelated males to gain ...
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Is cultural development possible in a "hive-mind" species?
One of the main species in my world has human level intelligence and works as a "pseudo-unified consciousness", in that the creatures are capable of intra-species telepathic communication, ...
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Does a secondary world setting need a religion? [closed]
So I have been debating about what to do for the secondary world setting I am developing. My big question is about what to do for the in-universe religion(s). The thing is that I am mostly doing ...
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What are the implications of gorilla anatomy on medieval warfare? [closed]
Let me know if I need to break this into smaller questions...my preference is to keep it as one.
I have a sentient species that has intelligence indistinguishable from humans, but with the body of a ...
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Why would murids (such as rats and mice) be sacred animals?
In a future web-series I want to create, there is a species of massive humanoids named giants (Homo gigas) (technically, there are still humans, just not Homo sapiens). They are less social than ...
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Why would a nation require immigrants to fulfil a decade of military service to gain citizenship? [closed]
A militaristic, autocratic nation masquerading as a democracy resembling a mixture of Communist Romania & Post-Soviet Belarus exists in the future. This country has two pathways for migrants to ...
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War and Conflict within a O'Neil Cylinder
I have an idea for a story I'm brewing but I want to know if such things are possible or even plausible.
The basic idea is that the O'neil cylinder was created after a failed attempt of colonizing a ...
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