I am no Historian but I guess the Neolitic age was born out of a necessity in order to get grain and reliable soil to eat near the rivers after the Younger Drias. Bible/religious myths about huge floods in the Mediterranean: melted ice from non-frozen environments. That's why the whole Abrahamic myth it's just a metaphor on making the Neolithic, farming and cattling "sacred" (Cain vs Abel was a war between gatherers with 'freedom' to pick everything on their own at their own pace vs shepherds creating 'unfair' rules, harvesting based calendars (Jesus' resurrection it's just a metaphor on having the Sun "back" for the harvests), kingdoms with arbitrary rules on livestocks and whatnot): it was just a way to keep the tribe united under a fixed source of nutrition compared to being easily killed outside, from either the cold or the predators.
We stopped being tribe-ruled (which often was by force) to being god-king religion (wisdom) ruled. Most people accepted it because, you know, when food is granted if you behaved well at the cost of a small tax everything would work well. But if some king was extremely unfair OFC rebellions and the like weren't unusual. You could have a shaman on your side ruling by fear but when your people really hungry you just got a new 'religion' with rules, a new Messiah and whatnot liberating you from the old king and promising you a great future. Yes, that's older than dirt, from Marx to Lincoln... any side. And in the end everyone ended equal, no matter what the books said on left or right.
I am no Historian but I guess the Neolitic age was born out of a necessity in order to get grain and reliable soil to eat near the rivers after the Younger Drias. Bible/religious myths about huge floods in the Mediterranean: melted ice from non-frozen environments. That's why the whole Abrahamic myth it's just a metaphor on making the Neolithic, farming and cattling "sacred" (Cain vs Abel was a war between gatherers with 'freedom' to pick everything on their own at their own pace vs shepherds creating 'unfair' rules, harvesting based calendars (Jesus' resurrection it's just a metaphor on having the Sun "back" for the harvests), kingdoms with arbitrary rules on livestocks and whatnot): it was just a way to keep the tribe united under a fixed source of nutrition compared to being easily killed outside, from either the cold or the predators.
We stopped being tribe-ruled (which often was by force) to being god-king religion (wisdom) ruled. Most people accepted it because, you know, when food is granted if you behaved well at the cost of a small tax everything would work well. But if some king was extremely unfair OFC rebellions and the like weren't unusual. You could have a shaman on your side ruling by fear but when your people really hungry you just got a new 'religion' with rules, a new Messiah and whatnot liberating you from the old king and promising you a great future. Yes, that's older than dirt, from Marx to Lincoln... any side. And in the end everyone ended equal, no matter what the books said on left or right.