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Early Human Societies Overview

The document discusses the history of human society from primitive to feudal times. During the primitive period, politics involved collectively managed work and shared ownership of property. The economy centered around nomadic hunting/gathering and early agriculture. Society was organized by bands, clans, and tribes based on kinship. Slavery later developed as a system where people were treated as property and forced to work for masters. In feudal times, there was a set of military obligations between the warrior nobility, with local lords exercising regional power and peasants providing labor in exchange for protection.

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Early Human Societies Overview

The document discusses the history of human society from primitive to feudal times. During the primitive period, politics involved collectively managed work and shared ownership of property. The economy centered around nomadic hunting/gathering and early agriculture. Society was organized by bands, clans, and tribes based on kinship. Slavery later developed as a system where people were treated as property and forced to work for masters. In feudal times, there was a set of military obligations between the warrior nobility, with local lords exercising regional power and peasants providing labor in exchange for protection.

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HISTORY OF SOCIETY

PRIMITIVE

DEFINITION Earliest period of human history Beginning: Quaternary Period most recent 2.6 million years of the earth's history

POLITICS No state work time was collectively managed by the community and there was free time for rest, eating and recreation Shared ownership property owned and the production by one person or a group were all communal Unwritten law based on shared morality and common sense

ECONOMY Nomadism hunted and gathered from place to place to search for food and water Agriculture used digging sticks and later on hoes to produce crops Stockbreeding performed domestication and breeding of food animals No money traded livestock in exchange of goods

SOCIETY Band, Clan and Tribe common social structures were organized largely on the basis of kinship Classless society rejected the rift between dominant and dominated Matrilineal kinship polygamy in the society caused children to know only their mothers

CULTURE Group marriage groups of polygamous men shared marital rights on equal terms over corresponding groups of polygamous women Animism believed in spiritual beings extended in animals, plants, inanimate objects, heavenly bodies and deceased ancestors Religious leaders, elected war leaders and hereditary peacetime leaders interpreted and developed the communitys ideology and morality Slaves developed their own religion based on their previous beliefs and practices Masters encouraged religion because they believed that it is a way to control their slaves

SLAVERY

System wherein people were treated as property and were forced to work

Masters owned the lives of their slaves Masters were taxed because of the inability of their slaves to pay tax Organized religions influenced the society and the state Social laws based on ownership slaves had no right to ownany property

Slaves as good investments expenses obtained by masters were lesser thanwhat the slaves produced No wages slaves were never rewarded or given salary no matter how hard they worked

Inferiority of slaves slaves had no rights unlike their masters slaves did not live in the same house with their masters slaves can buy their freedom but would cost them a lot slaves worked as servants, cooks, maids,seamstresses, coachmen, etc.

FEUDAL

Set of joint legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility

Local lords exercised administrative and judicial functions Fragmentation of authority leading inevitably to disorder

Land (fief) traditional means of reward for services Hierarchy: Local lords local elites/landlords Vassals performed military service Peasants performed physical labor

Bonds between: Lords and Vassals performed military service in exchange for fief Lords and Peasants performed physical labor to have protection in return

Lordship all aspects of life were centered on "lordship" Ties of obedience and protection binds man to man Survival of other forms of association (e.g. family, state) Feudal mentality

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