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    Role of Cow and Cow Herders in ancient past.

    Throughout the world, in most ancient civilizations and even in present day civilizations animals played an important role.

    Humans started their journey like any other animal living in the wild, the next phase of development was domestication of animals and then came agriculture.

    So, the wealth in ancient past was calculated by the number of animals a person had. The starting animals that humans kept were dogs, cows and then horses.

    So most of the ancient world people used to give analogies of their life, god and goddesses in form of closest animals and in most societies, that was a cow.
    So wealth of a person was calculated using a cow, life of a person was depicted using a cow, god and goddesses were seen in form of a cow. This was a primitive thought that ancient civilizations often kept with them to assertain their position in a society.
    In such societies there was not a single group who could claim wealth in form of cows rather each individual person was valued by the number of animals a person kept and often these animals were cattle in form of cows or any other serving animals in forms of goat, sheep, etc.
    It was also possible that the person might not own the cow and be a "Grazer of cows, that belonged to someone else". Such systems can even be seen now, throughout different countries of the world.
    Last edited by maddhan1979; May 22nd, 2014 at 02:58 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maddhan1979 View Post
    Throughout the world, in most ancient civilizations and even in present day civilizations animals played an important role.

    Humans started their journey like any other animal living in the wild, the next phase of development was domestication of animals and then came agriculture.

    So, the wealth in ancient past was calculated by the number of animals a person had. The starting animals that humans kept were dogs, cows and then horses.

    So most of the ancient world people used to give analogies of their life, god and goddesses in form of closest animals and in most societies, that was a cow.
    So wealth of a person was calculated using a cow, life of a person was depicted using a cow, god and goddesses were seen in form of a cow. This was a primitive thought that ancient civilizations often kept with them to assertain their position in a society.
    In such societies there was not a single group who could claim wealth in form of cows rather each individual person was valued by the number of animals a person kept and often these animals were cattle in form of cows or any other serving animals in forms of goat, sheep, etc.
    It was also possible that the person might not own the cow and be a "Grazer of cows, that belonged to someone else". Such systems can even be seen now, throughout different countries of the world.
    Domestication of these animals facilitated the availability of milk and milk products along with provided travel and transport facility in those times. The evidences available in the form of archaeological seals, tablets, sculptures , images testify the fact that all ancient civilisations flourished on the support of the animal husbandry and the growth of agricultural society was dependent on it to a large extent.
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    maddhan1979 (May 22nd, 2014)

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    Rajpal sir
    when indians came in contect with buffalo for which haryana is known.in usa they are called bison.in africa they are called as water buffalo.
    in africa its considers as most dangrous sport.how jats solved this problum.how jats made buffalo as tamed animal.
    regards ashok
    Last edited by agodara; May 22nd, 2014 at 11:54 PM.

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