In reading Chapter 2 we learn how civilization emerged from the agricultural revolution. Due to agriculture there was an abundance of food, enough to support growing communities. As agriculture grew so did the population, when population began to grow so humans created civilizations. In the text we see that within these civilizations inequality began among genders and male power began to grow. Social classes began to grow creating more separation between the wealthy and the poor. The wealthy had more rights than the poor, but what I found interested was that the even though there was gender inequality the wealthy women had more rights in these new found "civilizations." As time went on we know that women were stripped of their rights, which is still something that women are fighting for today. Social classes still exist because people with more money have more power over the people who stand lower on the social ladder.
Which statement of Tacitus might you regard as reliable, and which are more suspect? Why? I do not think that we can take any statements from Tacitus as reliable except for statements that are purely factual. This is because it states that Tacitus never visited the lands of the people he described. He only relied on others works of writing and story telling. We cannot regard him as reliable becuase we do not even know if there is any credibility in his statements.
I agree with your viewpoint on agriculture. I believe it is very interesting how it grew to play a big role in our society today and it's also crazy how civilizations developed to what they are now.
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