Journal Post #2: Chapter 1

I think it interesting that in this chapter is the first time we read about the people neolithic time period fighting. As agriculture spread some people fought to keep their hunter-gatherer ways of living. That archeologist have evidence that these people were aware of the farming practice of their neighbors meaning it was something that they chose to fight against. It also interesting to read about how as the practice spread other things spread with it. The language and the tools of the people. But it also brought the end of some communities as some fought to have their language and ways be the primary ways of the land. It brings up the questions if fighting with one another and to be dominant in some way part of human nature. It might be seeing as we have advanced in a way to have dominance over the land and animals that inhabit the earth. That as the practice of farming advanced, different places of the world developed into different types of societies, something that is still happening today. In this sections of the chapter what brought the beginning of agriculture is discussed. There are a few theories and factors that archaeologist believe contribute to the beginning of agriculture such as the end of the ice age where the earth began to warm up, a growing population or having a central place of worship. We also see that different type of societies develop that so does inequality, most clearly in chiefdoms.