@ErikUden Huh, I didn’t think I would see the return of the myth of the noble savage, but here we are. All of the colonizers came from cultures that had developed the concept of land ownership while they were indigenous.
@KarlHeinzHasliP @ErikUden “as we know it today” is doing a lot of heavy lifting because while the concept varies in detail from culture to culture it arose in every indigenous culture that developed agriculture rather than remain nomadic.
The Romans didn’t invent the concept. They evolved the idea that they got from the Greeks. Meanwhile similar concepts were developed in Asia and South America.
@KarlHeinzHasliP @ErikUden Geometry, after all developed originally to keep track of land ownership before the Romans. There’s archaeological evidence of land ownership in the former of physical boundaries dating back more than 3000 years
Even the Old Testament’s indigenous people had a sense of land ownership.
@KarlHeinzHasliP @ErikUden A worthwhile distinction. I don’t know of any earlier examples. The only possible exception might be how the Old Testament phrase sometimes translated as “dominion over the land” was interpreted.
The Chinese and Mayan cultures had absentee ownership but again I don’t know that relates to your point about abuse.
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