On a very direct level, it is easy for people in the present-day to say that society has benefitted from the social revolutions, for they have brought about new innovations, such as weapons, monumental architecture, and government. However, had the population never socially evolved, there would have been no use for such advances. “Ignorance is bliss,” as the saying goes. The basic human necessities of food, leisure, and procreation were met in the first human civilization, known as the “Human Revolution” (Thornton, 1).

The first humans of the world were the foragers, otherwise known as hunters and

The evolution of humankind has shown that life was not better for all , but for merely a fraction of the population for the majority of the time. Differences in social class and economy made the societies suffer in terms of creating a utopia for all. Only in the most simple of civilizations was a leisurely and equal lifestyle for all accomplished.

Socially, the competing communities began to become more different themselves. Each society developed a certain pride for themselves, and thus became the beginnings of nationalism and elitism amongst other cultures. The Greeks felt as though they were superior to the Egyptians, a darker-skinned race, and began to deny any sort of influence of theirs in the Greek lifestyle.

As the societies developed, kings became in charge of the societies, and they began to tax the population and encourage the use of slave labor. The state began to own land and remove it from the hands of the people. Surely, life was not better for all during the Bronze Age, and even in the Iron Age. Aristocrats owned large amounts of land, while peasants and slaves worked on it in order to achieve a small portion. The Iron Age also “made the mass army possible, for its weapons were priced within the range of small holding farmers” (Thornton, 3). Therefore, large wars were fought instead of small battles, which resulted in higher casualty rates. Among those fought were the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian Wars, which were battles of domination. These wars did not affect the lower class and w

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