Whatever happened to the McCarthurs and the Pattons

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by dar512

I don't read it that way. It's farming and division of labor that creates leisure time. More than one early culture had developed arts and so forth, but didn't have the inclination for war. Then, BAM. Here come the Assyrians, or whoever, that used their leisure time to create chariots and bronze weapons.

I guess I should have fleshed out the point better, sorry. The conquering cultures are the ones that end up with the time I think would be a better way of putting it. I think that the vital spark that makes a culture go to war is also going to make a culture attempt to conquer in other venues as well.