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  • Essay / Developmental origins of permanent inequalities since...

    The revolutionary evolution of culture can be analyzed through a change in the complexity of social organization. Population growth triggered a need for cohesion, resource surplus, distribution and regulation of the surplus, involving vast population trading networks. These causal factors of the Neolithic revolution integrate other potential causal factors which imply through these three pathways a developed socio-political transformation, urbanization. By identifying the Neolithic revolutionary factors, this article will be able to directly correlate the urbanization aspect into a generalized description of causes and effects. Between 12,000 and 6,500 years ago, the Neolithic period laid a socio-political foundation which, through various entities and cultural factors, developed in a rapid period. and revolutionary socio-political system. Subsequently, because the complexity of urbanization is multifaceted and multivariable in its genesis, I chose to concentrate my efforts on the pre-pottery Neolithic of the ancient Near East, in turn reducing the perspective to the main factors of causality, population growth, ritual beliefs and trade, which in my opinion. public opinion are the basic elements of social complexities (the overlapping of population growth resulting in new technologies and social developments, as well as religion being a technology of control by the administration of surplus agricultural assets, economics and new technologies are reinforced by trade – the process of The Neolithic and the urban revolution are succinctly linked.), also linking the factors of urbanization to their potential Neolithic effect. There is no doubt that population growth played an important role in the transition from bands and chiefdoms to state-level corporations. "Population was both the cause and effect of this change in civilization... middle of article... hypothesis that apparently all points are the result of sedentary lifestyle - or increased population. Mesopotamia, during the Neolithic revolution was prepared for domestication and agriculture. Changing environmental temperatures gave way to the possibility of creating permanent settlements and agricultural technology. that inequalities were created In order to control the growing population and expanding food patterns, social complexity was necessary. There had to be someone to dictate who did what and when, power was then established and. supported by religious connotations and propaganda of exclusivity It is in writing this article that I completely agree that “the Neolithic revolution was a technological breakthrough” (Acemoglu 2009: 2). Technology adds complexity; it was a natural progression towards the origins of permanent inequality.