Chapter 2 blog

With chapter two we start to go into ancient history/ the start of written history. The first civilizations start to come out which include Mesopotamia, Egypt, Babylonia, Norte Chico and a few others. With the emergence of civilizations we start to see how equality starts to go away compared to back in the neolithic times.  We see that because there starts to be a hierarchy on gender women start to be seen as subordinate to men in the family and socially. Which is what we call patriarchy,  women had there roles now in the home with the children and men were the ones who owned the land, became the rulers, and the scholars just based off their masculinity. The government or state is then created during this time we had powerful/ wealthy people coming into power and with that we had the invention of writing which helped with creating laws and a class system. With scribes coming into play we get the first written history and one of the first proof of laws in the ancient times. Egypt AND Mesopotamia are also compared and they hold similarities such as being dependent on agriculture, leadership, and being close to a water source. They also had differences such as Egypts cities weren't as important as those in Mesopotamia and most people in Egypt lived in agricultural villages. They also came into contact with each other frequently in ancient times which included them trading goods.

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