“The obvious benefit of international collaboration on voyages to foreign lands was fully understood by man of antiquity.”¹ There is evidence for long distance trading between isolated Neanderthal groups and larger Upper Paleolithic populations by 40,000 BC.² Historically trade has always resulted in interbreeding. Trade was initiated by small groups of Paleo-Indians who spread along the margins of previously occupied areas searching for resources. Relations between these Paleo-Indians and the original inhabitants were then maintained, especially through the practice of exogamy where individuals traveled between groups to find mates.³ Prehistorically there were neither barriers preventing contact between nomadic and sedentary groups, nor restrictions between inland and seafaring cultures. Long distance trading and large social networks are indicative of male alliances. Additionally, male alliances are the result of male competition and the control of property. “The history of human origins has not only been written by men-the authors being a male priesthood who controlled the secular leaders-but [history] has been continually rewritten with the intent of keeping man in the leading role.”⁴ “Mandated cultures”⁵ attributed to male sky gods evolved whose rule stated that man was created to be the slaves of the gods. Prehistoric trade relationships, the control of salt and food, and the perception of deception as magic were the primary economic driving forces that produced economic power.