Sheep Butler Alan
Sheep Butler Alan What was the most important step in civilization? Sheep were the mainstay of ancient cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals. Alan Butler's answer is that it…
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Sheep Butler Alan
What was the most important step in civilization? Sheep were the mainstay of ancient cultures, by far the most important of the domesticated animals. Alan Butler's answer is that it was when we began capturing wild sheep, domesticating and breeding them.
This is why so many of the earliest gods and their myths are sheep related, from the Egyptian Ra (ram) to the later Christian Lamb of God. Able to survive almost anywhere, over-wintering successfully, they provided not just milk, meat and skin, but warm clothing. But sheep have not only sustained us for thousands of years.
Sheep farming also underpinned the growth of European nation states, international trade and modern economies. In effect sheep built the modern world. The demands of the woollen textile industry both drove and financed the Industrial Revolution.
The British Empire was founded on wool. The space needed for sheep drove