| Culture would certainly be immensely different. Livestock oriented groups, specifically pastoralists and agriculturalists, would crumble. Hunter and gatherer societies would probably survive, although they'd be simply reduced to gathering. A lot of people, especially in regions where relying and depending on variety, would likely starve and disease would spread as a result. Specifically those peoples who live in harsher habitats, such as rocky hillsides, deserts, or snow covered lands.
Many cultural variations would vanish, or at least change. Most Italian food wouldn't exist, therefor Italians would inevitably change. Ranchers would be relatively pointless, therefor a lot of the culture, such as dress and art associated with them, would change and disappear. A variety of social interactions would collapse, such as bridewealth, the act of a man giving livestock to the family of their bride as compensation (which eases a lot of social stigmas and fuses people together into alliances that actually lead to a lot of peace).
Overall, some groups would change but would probably do well, whereas others would crumble and therefor become more competitive for resources, thus leading to warfare and death in certain regions. |