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September 18 Early Civilizations

Communities were turning into civilizations. Some rose, fell, revived and changed.

There were seven first civilizations. The first civilization emerged around 3500 BCE in southern Mesopotamia. There were different types, for example, the Norte Chico was way different with their small cities and their less evidence of economic specialization. Civilizations in other places were very different from one another. For example, Egypt and China experienced an impressive continuity of identity as a distinct civilization from its early years. But although they are all different, all civilizations had their roots in the Agricultural Revolution. With civilization came cities and with cities, came a hierarchy and inequality that was regarded as normal. For example, men were superior to women. To keep everything in balance and place, the idea of a government based society was born and laws beginning to be written. But as the first civilizations broke down, new civilizations took their place and human communities continued to thrive as the population grew more rapidly among other things. As new civilizations bloomed, they generated important innovations in many spheres like the great philosophical/religious system of Confucianism and others, the creation of gun powers by the Chinese and other technologies that would life easier!

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