28/ As the settlements grew they developed a social hierarchy that reflected classes of skills passed on from parents to offspring, typically ruler, priests, warriors, merchants and craftsmen, farmers, and slaves.
29/ They expanded into autocratically ruled cities, city-states, and then empires that rose and fell. The overall pattern across the globe was an increase in size, complexity, and centration of human societies.
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30/ The evolution of primeval thinking was intimately bound up with the evolution of beliefs that arose from imagination combined with a lack of understanding of natural phenomena or fear of the unknown, that is, superstition.
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31/ From the animism, totemism, and ancestor veneration of hunter-gatherers, religions developed that reflected the growth in size, complexity, and specializations of settled human societies.
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