First Civilizations

The term " civilization" was created due to the Agricultural Revolution. This is interesting because out of the Industrial Revolution we obtained more mass beneficiary products and out of the Agricultural Revolution we obtained a term. This term comes from the word cities which is important to this particular part of the chapter because in this section of history, societies started to see an increase in population. It's also fascinating because out of this particular revolution we obtained Pyramids, temples, palaces, sculptures, literature, complex calendars, gender hierarchies, and even slavery. All these concepts and structures are seen in today's modern society. We still see pyramids in Egypt, we see palaces in India, we see well written literature in England, we still these unfortunate gender hierarchies and we went through period when slavery was still used, especially here in America. What also caught my attention was the idea of states. In order to keep people calm and in order the concept of a state was created. Unlike most countries today, these states were ruled by a king. These "totalitarian:" regimes were common in this period of history. Although these societies were under totalitarian rule, there were still check and balances. These checks came from "the temple" and  the "private economy." Like today we live in habitative environments in order to survive.  The same concept applied back then. Civilizations lived by water to ensure they had foos to eat and water to drink.