Economic Societies
The development of human societies gave birth to civilization. The first established human society are hunting and gathering societies, which were primarily engaged in survival activities such as hunting games and gathering vegetation. This form of society, as the first form of civilization, was also characterized as egalitarian and nomadic. It was nomadic in the sense that most humans move from one area to another in order to forage for food and hunt for animals that serve as their food; it was egalitarian because there was no known forms of social class or stratification among members of this hunting-gathering societies. Each member of the society contributes to their survival, thus each member was treated equally. The transition from hunting-gathering to a pastoral and horticultural society changed the characteristic of human societies to being sedentary. A pastoral society was primarily centered on raising animals for food and industry, while a horticultural one was focused on cultivating vegetation. These forms of societies (pastoral and horticultural) paved the way for the establishment of an agricultural society, wherein a new social class, hence a despotic society, was established. This is because food s
However, competition against other societies had also deterred the development of innovations and other new technologies in despotic societies. Take as an example the Mycenean civilization, which suppressed the development of writing-in fact, there had been a curtailment of communication in the society when there occurred a cultural decline in this particular Greek civilization. Apart from the curtailment of communication, transportation was only used for military purposes, specifically for use when waging wars and conflicts against other societies. From this example, the despotic character of this Western civilization brought about a decline in transportation and communication, utilized only for increasing the power and influence of the Greek leaders over other territories. This illustrates how innovations in material culture-that is, technology-were suppressed to benefit the powerful minority during the early periods and development of human societies. The development of new technologies in Western civilization after the collapse of the Roman Empire can be attributed not on the fall, but the flourishing of cultures within the Empire during its early development. The Roman Empire was best known for establishing Roman law, developing the Latin language, and most especially, integrating Christianity in the lives of Romans. These achievements are just the important facets of the true character of the Roman Empire, which is an organized and continuously developing culture. It was only with the weakening
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