Is progress real?

[antisocialmunky]

I don't really think that's true ASM. Sure, many ancient and medieval societies were conservative, but others were more open to change, and it's not like new ideas and inventions were never accepted into pre-modern societies. What about the development of the three-field crop rotation in the early Middle Ages? That was certainly the introduction of a new idea, and people (especially nobles) jumped to incorporate it, because it made them more rich. The distinction is that when these introductions occurred, there was no idea that society was going to be improved or perfected by the introductions. That's the difference between modern "progress" and the earlier introduction of inventions and ideas, it's not that nothing new was introduced into society before the Enlightenment, it's just that this idea of social progress did not accompany that introduction.

True people accepted those things because they were better. However, that's a pretty simple one to implement because it wasn't very esoteric.

But when you get into the zone of medical science, machines, physics, chemistry, and other complicated things. You usually have periods of innovation in the lifespan of one person and then everyone just copied that one person instead of realizing that they should take it further.

So I guess I should clarify that to:
"Your new method might be better but its too complex to implement and we can already do that just fine."

While this is all very fascinating, I'm wondering how all this is directly related to the question whether female warriors will be depicted in nomadic units in EBII?

Something about boobs quite possibly.