Sep 19

First Civilization .
There are so many things that were created that shaped the first civilization. People who were fisherman found great value in anchovies, sardines and other fish along the coast. They would trade for other goods like cotton, squash, beans and other products that were grown by the farmers.  Sounds like a win win situation. There were also so many other way to survive , thrive, prosper, make a living, such as steel workers to make the tools to farm, carpenters to make build the houses and barns, doctors to help the sick and the list goes on. As families grow sometimes their assets did as well such as owning more land, cattle, houses, ect, basically more stuff. This created the hierarchies of classes. It became so extreme that it started the erosion of equality. People actually owned people as slaves, it didn't matter the color of your skin. What matter was the rich had the power. There was even the famous code of Hammurabi depended on social status. "A free-born commoner who struck a person of equal rank had to pay a small fee, but if he struck a man who is his superior he would receive 60 strokes with an oxtail whip in public." The hierarchies of gender has been a bit unequal in my opinion but the past is the past. Men has the power and some women were treated horrible, somethings like a piece of property. Men could marry more than one woman and have sex with multiple women and it was accepted. If a women had sex with another woman's husband she would be punished.
The first civilizations of the Mesopotamia and Egypt had a lot in common. Starters it was the agriculture for the water of the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates. They did a lot of treating which created the first Commerce. Show how cultures are made and people has forms of power. They domesticated there animals to farm lands and to use as transport especially for long distance. Luxury goods of course were for the wealth and transportation had its cost.  It provided work for others which formed the first logistics. 

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