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Who owned the first land in the world?

And who did they have to pay for it?

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    GOD- GOD owns everything believe it -- it is in the BIBLE!!

  • 1 decade ago

    That would have most likely been in Africa. Although the concept of ownership would have been more of an animalistic territorialism. Groups of hominids banding together to defend a section of territory that provided for their basic needs, water, food, shelter, resources. Whenever an opposing band may have found it desireable, they would have defended it as if they owned it. A long, long, long time ago. The concept hasn't changed a lot since.

  • 1 decade ago

    The notion of individual property rights is only a few hundred years old. In the "olden" days, a "Kingdom" was just that: The king owned everybody and everything, and was considered responsible for the success or failure of all of it. He kept power by force of wit and might and heredity.

  • 1 decade ago

    the first humans in the world who got land were adam and eve. they leased out the Garden of Eden until their landlord God found out they ate an apple, which was against the contract, and he kicked them out, but he still gives a guiding hand to us.

    Source(s): "The Holy Bible," read it!
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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Adam

  • 1 decade ago

    nobody paid for it...they killed whoever was on it and took it...then the people who wanted that land had to pay for it..or kill and take it.

    the world has only been "civil" so to speak for the last few hundred years

  • 1 decade ago

    GOD

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