Early mines and cleared lands are found over much of the earth's surfaces where early peoples converged and then concentrated. A with many of the copper families of ores, found greenish and bluish stones which appealed to their aesthetic sensitivities. They also discovered that some of those rocks when heated accidentally and then on purpose, yielded a metal we call copper which could be formed, that is, controlled, into shapes and surfaces for which purposes were available or, being available, led to more purposes in turn convertible into needs. Peoples from point B who had gone through parallel discovery processes with materials available to them and not available to people at point A, on encountering each other discovered first that they could trade, hence inventing export economics. Later, they also discovered that taking sometimes had more appeal than trading.
War is invented thereby.
Settlement, agriculture and surpluses led to hierarchy and patriarchy. Resource control led to power dynamics. Humpty Dumpty fell long ago and all the King's horses and all the King's men can never put Humpty Dumpty back together again. The fall from Grace symbolized by Eve's apple urged on Adam persists in and remains, in terms of resource exhaustion, sin. Our collective suffering is founded in denial of The Resource Base on which all sentience depends.