QUOTE : From having an agricultural surplus, you get the emergence of classes, because some people can live off the labour of others. You can't have a division between rich and poor when everyone produces the same goods; it only when you get a surplus product which some people can live off and others have to produce, that you get a class system, and that soon emerges into a system of power and domination. You see the e emergence of individuals who claim a divine right and that integrates with the emergence of a cosmology. You have the origin of civilization there but it's bound up with blood, with dynamics, and with personal aggrandizement.