-10,000-1400
Food on the Water
This time period focuses on the changing landscape, origin stories and early migrations of people. At the world level we also begin to see the development of early Christian empire-building in concert with the development of nation states - and the evolving rationale for occupying foreign lands for trade and profit. These early assumptions were the seeds of European "discovery doctrine" which established the framework of perceptions and structures within which we work and live even today.