Some dumbass "advanced" culture identies their culture with a valuable substance, then uses that substance, under the guise of a belief within that culture, to wipe out the culture that has that substance. Gifts of famine and disease help the thieving culture.
Incas, Aztecs, Plains Indians, Canaanites, Philistines, Egyptians, Aleutians, Mesopotamians, Nepalis.
Gold, oil, healing substances, spices. Food, water.
Belief/non-belief in one or more dieties, in every way shape and imagined form, drives many conflicts.
From these conflicts, many cultures spring, then die, then bloom from these deaths. A lot of shit gets lost along the way.
Last edited by Extra Point; 02-05-2011 at 12:48 PM..
Reason: Everbody's gotta eat. Or die.
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