No Boundaries

Just as when tribes of fifty or so humans fought each other for resources and territory, growing civilisations tend to place increasing demands upon their neighbours until disputes turn into wars over boundaries and resources, with each particular group identified by their own particular image of G-d.  Similarly, disputes within a society often lead to division into factions, which may be forced to migrate to new lands in order to survive.   But with an ever growing human population, new lands became increasingly hard to find. 

Spreading the word of the beliefs of one’s society through contact and trade with other civilisations led to a generally growing awareness amongst the wise men of each society of the common values and the differences between societies, but also of the very real dangers of a refusal to co-exist, and of the immense difficulties in getting a population to adapt to support multiple cultures living in peace and harmony.