As Lynndee suggested adding natural disasters to the game, I will suggest how to go about doing so. Since these types of events scatter resources, the sacred animals, fruit loop necklaces and cocoa puffs should end up on different lands than they were previously on. First, it would simulate how some 'minority' (or less powerful) cultures have resources, but do not necessarily have the means to continue reproducing them and thus, get sucked into slave labor and taxation such as the Dutch exercised upon their inferiors. Secondly, it would demonstrate how cultures, which lose the valuable resources, find alternative means of production, sometimes at the cost of their less powerful entities.

Someone mentioned having an authority figure, but what if that authority figure were to be a peaceful one, like Gandhi? I am merely throwing this out there in hopes that there is a possibility to resolve conflicts in the World Sim without warfare, although this seems to go against what has actually happened in our world thus far.

mwesch wrote:
> Hi class,
> Post your world simulation ideas here. Read Wallerstein, Lappe & Collins, and the first 2 pages of Wolf. Using the ideas you gather there, re-write the rules and post them here.