Agriculture was the structure of the first civilizations. After that people started learning about wealth which divided people with status and power. Agriculture was mostly depend regions. Robert Carneiro also talk about how good agriculture had a limited land ether by "geography or by powerful society" There was inequality among human beings. Furthermore, earlier people started inventing technology which help create more product and economic went up. At the same time there was a slavery. "People owning people" is from earliest civilization to nineteen century. For example, in earlier civilization the working family had to work very to live their life and there was not much freedom. It was not easy to change classes unless you marry with rich person. On the other hand, upper classes enjoy their wealth. Most of the societies systems were organized by hierarchy.
After reading chapter 2 the most interesting I found was that in first civilization there was gender different. I understand that all culture have different value and belief about gender roles. For example, in hunter gathering and horticultural equal values in gender. However, there is other societies/culture where there is different roles of both men and women. For instead, men is the head of the household,he have more power and he control home and society. He is like a bread winner. However, women listen to men order and he have to work in house and take care of family.Women started braking the rules and many people were against women having power and equality. Over time the culture started changing as well as gender roles.
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