Blog post #3

Chapter two First Civilizations, in an introduction to the how the early civilizations evolved, groupings of class and gender, writing and accounting, interaction and exchange along with several other topics that display details of the early civilizations. Some of the first Civilizations were Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Norte Chico along with many others. Some interesting facts about these civilizations are how Norte Chico's economy was based on an extremely rich fishing industry in anchovies and sardines along the coast and they lacked defensive walls. Peruvian civilization came along the central coast around 3000 B.C.E to 1800 B.C.E. They lived in a desert region, yet was punctuated by dozens of rivers. Another interesting fact about Peru is that they did not rest on grain-based farming, unlike Egyptian and Mesopotamian societies.

In these civilizations there was also differences in gender. The typical ideal was that men were superior to women, and sons were preferable then daughters. Women's roles would take place in the home. Men usually married more than one woman and had the right to regulate the social and sexual aspect of the wives, daughters and sisters in the family. Something interesting is the lives that the lower class women had. Majority of them had to be in public working in the fields, tending livestock, buying and selling in the streets, or serving in the homes of their social superiors.

In  the end these civilizations gave us inspiration of art, early technology, awareness of nature and the art of writing. Although future civilizations have developed far from the first, without these basics we wouldn't be able to have what we have today.