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Originally Posted by baddog
I highly doubt anyone played nomad once they found what they needed.
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Well, there was always the next season where it might not be as plenty, and they'd have to pick up and move.
Part of the theory here, I think, is that it didn't really occur to men to settle down until beer was discovered... why would they when it was easier to just pick up and move a few valleys over, following the herds... as their fathers had done before them. Again, the idea here is there aren't that many humans around, and nature had plenty to offer humankind. Beer came along and then people thought: we need grain, and lots of it. We also can't carry around these big heavy drums, can we? So it became a driving force in the direction of permanent settlement.
In way of example, many of the nomadic people of North America never stopped moving around from year to year... and they also didn't have beer.