Blog Post #3: Chapter 2

I think that in this chapter it is interesting that we learn about concepts that we are more familiar with in the modern world. Here we see a distribution of wealth that is similar to today, just not as extreme. That we see the rise of gender inequality yet historians are unable to pinpoint what brought that concept into human societies as they know it is not natural. In this chapter we learned that even though these societies  are developing are around a similar time, every society has it differences in its legal system, social structure, religion and how they are ruled. I think it illustrates the individuality of humans. We know that some civilization did participate in trade and communicated with each other. Which has lead to the sharing of ideas. That in these civilizations a written language is being used but not by many people. Which I think brings up the question why it took humans so long to have a written language? Before humans have been communicating orally for hundreds of years. Because I think many people see that reading, writing and talking go hand in hand today.