What are the reasons that prevent some societies from developing in the same way as ours did?

[crookedfriction852]

Why do you think they are prevented? Also you make vast generalisations. I live in the UK, and there are plenty of people still living the same way their ancestors did. I recently saw a program called "Mountain" that showed a Scottish cattle farmer, who was living on his own in a stone barn tending to cattle, just the very same way that his great, great grandfather did. He did not have a TV or radio, as he was so far away from any signal mast. So apart from the different style of clothes he wore, his lifestyle is that of the 1600s. There are many villages that on the surface look the same as they did a couple of hundred years ago, and in the background there may be many changes, like TV and radio, but the same can be said for most of Africa, a family may farm land like they did centuries ago, but they are now wearing synthetic clothes and they have a radio or even TV.

The best examples to support your argument is tribes in deep rain forest regions of the world like South America and Borneo. And the reason they are still tribal and naked is due to isolation. They don't witness the progress of the rest of the world and therefore don't emulate it. Also the terrain limits social interaction and development. There are no roads in the rain forest, so there is no real access to other tribes to trade, and also other tribes don't really have anything different to offer, as they have access to the same resources and can get the same things themselves. Also the density of the terrain limits movement, so the prospects of a community speading out are limited and difficult.