One of the things the egghead’s don’t like to admit is the effect of Religion on the birth of Civilization. There has not been, to my knowledge , any Civilization that started up without it . Even now the efforts to erase Religion from Civilization have been a disaster as the Soviet Union proved.
An interesting hypo7. I’ve never thought about religion’s effect on the BIRTH of civilizations. I always thought that is was correlated but not a creating factor, but now when you talk a out it and what we know of Gobekli Tepe, that this first started as a religious place that led to agricultural use and permanent buildings, keeping that in mind makes sense.
But can you elaborate on what you have thought, your conclusions etc?
Civilization is the result of agriculture and the need of fixed populations to defend their farmland and fields of food, and religion arose as a result of civilization, not the other way around. The USSR collapsed because of its rejection of reality, e.g., the market economy.