I highly doubt anyone played nomad once they found what they needed.
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.
a "thoughtful conversation" does not begin with baiting people into what you know full well is a controversial and poorly supported argument...
Dude, all i was doing was stating something I pretty much regard as the way things are - and offered what I could in way of supporting the point that I've brought up in several lectures of my own on the subject... of which people paid to hear, by the way.
Here's a bit of advice for you of my own...
Don't want people to get all condescending on your ass? Maybe you should refrain from starting off the discussion with sophomoric injections such as:
"are you totally fucking retarded? seriously, you say some of the stupidest shit said on this board."
Doing so tends to put people who have a leg to stand on in the position of asking "who the fuck is this crackpot?" and would rarely generate a positive response, I'd think.
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