Most of my books from Class 11-12 were lent to Hampi for his studies. I also packed off all my school books in the storeroom and cleared my desk (an old big table belonging to my Dadaji). Mom did some shopping for me : clothes, accessories, etc. This was going to be my first unpaired journey (with no return journey!). I made long lists of all the things to be taken, including my bedding. Ghar chodna hain! I began packing my bags. Its fertile soil ensured more than sufficient wealth for everyone, including guests. For the record, India never attacked a single country in its history of over five millennia. This trend continued for centuries, with various foreign invaders making a beeline for the prosperous land of Bharatvarsha. In the 11th Century, Mahmud of Ghazni (Afghanistan) attacked, plundered, looted and ruined Central-Western India 17 times, carrying huge wealth back. In short, such cultures dehumanize women completely. Barbaric cultures have even more stringent, conservative, and patriarchal norms : controlling women, limiting their education, keeping them in physically covered, monitoring their movement outside the house with a constant male escort, having a lifelong male guardian, practicing of polygamy, etc.
Therefore, cultures originating from the deserts have been historically violent and destructive. Extortion requires violence and brute force. When you are not able to grow your own food, you steal/exhort it from others. The figure below shows the deserts of the world. There were enough barren deserts and useless grasslands. But, was there not enough land for everyone on this planet? Actually no. Here again, the males participated because of their superior physical strength. Each one was trying to capture the others' land to gain control over wealth-generating land for sustenance. Immovable property (fertile, crop-yielding land) led to wars.
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