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For indigenous people their agriculture was usually far lower intensity than western agriculture. It was not as labor intensive and it was more stable. They were simply better at early agriculture than than our ancestors were. Where we saw empires like in mesomamerica with very intense agriculture we all also saw more familiar empire like behavior.