In the novel "Ishmael," Daniel Quinn presents a piquant amount of ideas and theories. One of these theories was that the world was separated into two different sets of people. The two different sets of people were takers and leavers. The takers are known as the modern society, they take what they want and not what they need. They are greedy individuals that only think for themselves and not for the future generation. The leavers are the complete opposite of the takers. The leavers live for what need, not what they want. They live a very sustainable life that could allow a future generation to prosper on. The leavers can relate very well with the indigenous cultures, for example the Mayans. The Mayans lived by primarily the same norms as the leavers. The Mayans and the leavers both thought that there was no real way to prosper from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and they both believed that agriculture was the backbone to expansion. Although the pre-classic Mayans used the hunter-gatherer method it soon had to change because they noticed that there was no real way to prosper from that method. For example if a crop failed there would be no way to go back and recover it. According to atitlan.net "Since corn cannot grow in the wild, if they ever had a crop failure there was no chance to go back to nature to replenish their seed supply." The approach of hunting and gathering soon seemed imminent that it was not going to allow the Mayans the chance to expand. The leavers from the novel had the same theory of settling down and starting a civilization. The idea of expanding and growing from a society seemed to be a very wise system. "I mean that it was impossible for him to get beyond a certain point living out in the open as a hunter-gatherer, always moving from place to place in search for food" (Quinn,68). The Mayans and the leavers had very similar ideologies in the sense that it would not make sense to keep searching for food, and then s