The claim would be that the equality that humans enjoyed during creation has been ruined because of war and famine.
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It is important to cite sources correctly in order to 2. to give credit to the original authors.
If you do not cite your sources, your work is considered to be plagiarized, which means stealing a work from others.
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An understatement is the downplay of something.