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[Thomas]

Hotwine,

It's the way I feel about the history, or maybe I should say, the way I'd like it to have been.

I believe that trade of any kind became the basis for the spread of civilization, that and greed. The greed part is the one that makes trade wars, and then the wars become surrogates for belief systems like religions, etc.

So, in that sense, civilization does follow trade. The wine trade produced as much enmity across civilization as any other human interaction, but it offered one benefit that the others often did not: after consuming enough of the product, the fight is taken out of you, at least temporarily [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 08-24-2006).]