HIST 3370 Lecture 1: Discussion 1 - Cain and Abel
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First of all, the settled agriculture is represented by cain, while abel is represented as one of the major fundamentals for the cities" development as well as nomadic herding. An additional emphasis in this context should be put on the advanced methods of subsistence, which have succeeded hunting and gathering as well as have been in the process of an all-time competition with each other. This claim may be supported with the following: even after becoming almost completely settled farmers, the herding lifestyle was still romanticized by the hebrews. In such a manner, it is possible to trace the economic and social development of humanity (as the neolithic humans made a large-scale change in the lifestyle) from a herding one to settled farming. After reading genesis, it is possible to claim that the starting point for the coexistence of agriculture and herding, as well as the starting point for the economic evolution of the society, started almost.
