Why does the hostility between pastoralists and sedentary peoples have less to do with conflicts of interest than with a clash of cultures?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: The hostility of nomads and farmers arose less, perhaps, from conflicts of interest than from mutual misunderstanding: a clash of cultures, incompatible ways of seeing the world and coping with it. There is no moral difference between settled and nomadic lifeways. Each type of community, however, tended to see the other as morally inferior. This was probably because, for followers of each way of life, those of the other came to represent all that was alien. Their mutual descriptions were full of incomprehension and even disgust.
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What will be an ideal response?
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A) Thomas Watson. B) Grover Cleveland. C) Ignatius Donnelly. D) William Jennings Bryan.
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A) Kongo B) Ethiopia C) Morocco D) Angola