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Original Post Date: 2010-11-07 Time: 08:00:01 Posted By: Jan
In Rhodesia and South Africa, prior to their handover to the blacks, there was a tremendous amount of discussion about the importance of property rights. There was much debate about the importance of the right to own property as a citizen. The fear was of course that blacks would take whites’ property away – which has since then of course actually happened most especially with regard to farmers.
What is interesting is the role that farmers working their own land have played in the rise of some of the most influential empires and countries history has ever seen as well as the incredible influence of farmers in warfare.
It appears to me that we have all conveniently forgotten the unbelieveable influence FARMERS have had on history out of all proportion to their numbers.
I do not know enough about American history to comment on the influence of farmers on American history, but I would not be surprised if it parallels what happened elsewhere. And farmers, to this day, have in their own way done amazing things. There is something about men who work the land, perhaps it just makes them tougher, that makes them different from everyone else.
As recent as ten years ago, a few thousand white farmers had to be destroyed by Mugabe’s regime because they were influencing the masses of people who worked for them as well funding the MDC which was rising and which was about to defeat Mugabe’s regime. The massive political upheaval there can be traced back to farmers who decided to make their own plans to take on the political system – and they nearly won.
In South Africa, the Afrikaners are descendents of the Boers, who decided to get away from British rule. They sought land to settle and they ended up creating 2 new countries: Transvaal and Free State. The word “Boer” means “Farmer”.
What is truly shocking is the role of farming and agriculture in all of history. One could argue that by destroying the commercial farmer you are also destroying civilisation. Certainly, history shows the opposite to be true. The rise of “commercial farming” in ancient times led directly to the rise of civilisation. I have watched many documentaries in recent years where this was a scientific theme. It has long been known that civilisation only arose when people stopped being nomads. People need to settle for long periods of time so that they can build up civilisation.
People could only give up the nomadic lifestyle once they could produce food in abundance. That only happened once people discovered crops – especially wheat. Most of civilisation is built on the ability to grow wheat. The domestication of animals added the next level to civilisation. People only began to produce surplusses of food about 9,000 years ago and animals were domesticated about 6,000 years ago.
Without farming, cities could not grow. The Greek city states from which all modern countries originated only came about as a result of successful farmers who farmed on 5 to 15 acres of land. These cities only came into existence because farming produced a surplus which allowed specialities to exist and most importantly, allowed people to remain in the same place year after year.
Interestingly, not only did farmers produce the first food surplusses thereby allowing cities to grow, but they also provided the basis for all warfare: food (logistics) AND they fought in the armies too!!
The Greek armies which created the modern Western way of total warfare were the result of these farmers and their practical needs.
Note: Warfare in ancient societies normally was not like the way the West fights. Ancient warfare normally involved a lot of angry men with weapons who shouted insults at each other. Then, finally, when they came to blows the fighting stopped with “the drawing of first blood”. War actually stopped when someone was physically injured. Then the “battle” was over.
It was the Greeks who invented modern warfare which white people these days feel extremely guilty about. It was the Greeks who invented it, and the Romans who PERFECTED IT. The influence of the Greeks and Romans on us today cannot be underestimated.
The Greeks invented modern warfare when their farmers went to war almost annually in order to settle border disputes. Since they had families and needed to work their fields, they had little time for war. So they armed themselves, formed small armies and fought it out in ONE DAY. They went and had a battle, and they had referees who agreed the time and place of the battle. The battle would be fought and the winner would also get the prize – the disputed border.
The Greeks fought a lot among themselves in this short, sharp way, and when they were attacked by others, they banded together and they then fought as a whole. The Greek city states were, in many ways, like modern American states – they worked together loosely. (That is how America was designed. It no longer works that way… but that was the original intention).
The Greeks invented the “tank” of ancient times – the Phalanx. They invented a way of warfare whereby fathers and sons – young men and old, together worked together as a team and went to war. They wanted a QUICK RESULT. Thus they ended up fighting for a DECISIVE OUTCOME. They did not have much time to waste. So their style of warfare that evolved was: Quick and brutal – so that peaceful activities could continue.
By the time of Alexander the Great this system had been further perfected by his father who brought in additional arms (archers and horsemen) to add to the infantry. But the basic and most important, part of any army in history has always been the infantry. And all the other arms were there just to compliment the infantry and not to replace them.
Alexander the Great, whose conquests were beyond belief, was only able to pull this stunt off because of the availability of food. Much of his conquests were driven by his stunning mind that could handle the complex logistics. He also had a navy which followed his troops around. Then, as now, naval transport was the most efficient way to move goods. Alexander the Great used his navy and army and brilliant logistical planning which enabled him to fight all the way from Greece to Egypt to India in less than 10 years.
The backbone of this most brilliant army was still the GREEK FARMER.
Then along came the Romans… and they did the same thing. Rome was the first city in the world to have a population of a million people. But the Roman army for the first centuries of its existence was composed ONLY of FARMERS! The Romans recruited ONLY landowners for a long time. Eventually, by 200 BC when the population of the Roman state was 3.75 million – they also had an army of a staggering 750,000 men!! The Romans recruited men up to the age of 50! (Julius Caesar, only first commanded an army at the age of 52!).
The Roman army’s soldiers were men who owned and worked land! Like the Greeks they too had families to look after! And, like the Greeks they had to work their farms themselves. (I do not know if Roman or Greek farmers ever had slaves – my understanding is that they worked the land themselves – them and their sons!).
The Roman army was so successful and the Roman Empire was expanding so much that they were running out of men to recruit and so the Romans invented the first professional army in history. The Roman army then paid their troops a salary. They also gave them medical care and when the soldiers retired they often paid them a “pension” in the form of land. From then onwards, the Roman army allowed non-land-owners into their army. But one should never forget that what made Rome great were the FARMERS who formed the army and fought the battles!!
Without their “commercial farmers”, neither the Romans nor the Greeks would ever had produced their civilisation. Their entire civilisation was based on their agricultural prowess!!