The first civilizations that appeared on earth all shared humble beginnings. Their initial development of agriculture that worked with their local landscapes and geography, the creation of local community systems for education, health and rudimentary forms of government seemed to be borne out of a desire to make our lives far more comfortable and secure than they had been as nomadic tribes. In each civilization of the world, it seems that after initial gains in the overall well-being of the populace, that the benefit of selected individuals and selected aspects of the state were put ahead of the general populations needs. The one constant that can be derived from most early civilizations, regardless of their local environments and issues to due with agricultural development and potential invasions, is that each society created or allowed the creation of ruling or organizational class to engineer the construction of local irrigation schemes and road development. While the effects of......
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