Chapter 2 (First Civilizations)

What I found interesting in this chapter was the Hierarchies of class.  Beside the occupational specialization of the first civilization lay their vast inequalities in wealth, status, and power. It was interesting to read how as ingenuity and technology created more productive economies, the greater weather now available was everywhere piled up other than spread out. There were signs of erosion of equality were evident in the more settled and complex gathering and hunting societies and in agriculture chiefdoms, but the advent of urban based civilizations multiplied and magnified these inequalities many more times over. It was a transition that represented one of the major turning point in the social history in humankind. When the first civilization took shape inequality and hierarchy soon came to be regarded as normal and natural. The upper class enjoyed great wealth in land or salaries and were able to avoid physical labor and they had the finest of everything and had the top positions in political, military, an religion life. Now a days things haven't changed that much those people who are wealth now still have many benefit like having the nicest things and getting the top positions. Those people in the wealthy life would be famous or rich people. Even people who just make great salaries from their jobs like being a doctor or scientist. Upper class as distinguished by their clothing, house they live in,  and the manner of their burial. Wealthy people are still known to have all those things. The lowest of hierarchies everywhere were slaves. Which are now no longer exist. Slaves presented in some gathering and hunting societies and early agriculture communities. I think the reason why they were so common in small communities like that was because there wasn't any great hierarchies to take charge in those communities. This was interesting to read about because I learned about how the hierarchies worked back then.

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