It is hard to understand how the rise of different societies in
different parts of the world happened in a short amount of evolutionary time.
The rise of agriculture and the growing of crops definitely had a large part of
when the rise of different civilizations happened. It is also apparent that
Homo Sapiens are inherently a social animal and given the choice they will
choose to live in a larger group instead of in isolation. When they congregate
into larger groups, their differences become more apparent and there is a
natural separation into different groups that turn into different classes of
people.
There are people who are
natural leaders that others will follow and usually end up taking a stature of
some kind of power within the area of settlement. On the other hand, there are
others who are happy to not be a leader and are willing to go about their lives
while either following others or living without having large influence over
others. It seems that history has shown that when the separation of status
happens in each society that there is a tendency to take advantage of others in
order to gain more for themselves.
Agriculture created settled
societies while animal-husbandry created sustenance for other types of
societies. When the use of animals is the key factor for sustenance, you need
to migrate where the animals are able to graze and feed off of the lands and
move around with the seasons. This in turn created a different hierarchy for
the race of people that lived within the means of this type of society.
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