jan 1, 987 BC - Sacred family hearth and Terminus

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The worship of dead ancestors through he use of a sacred fire and its surrounding ground to protect its sanctity birthed the exclusive use of land.

The Terminus as a boundary line of land as property to a family and its Gods were the first markers of private property.

Early Hindus, Sabines, Etruscans and Hellenes all expressed these private rights to sacred land.

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