How Has Civilization Changed Over The Years

For thousands of years’ humans have been coming together to live in what is called civilizations. For thousands of years, the creation of civilization has made people work together to improve living conditions and live better lives, but has also demonstrated that different society’s will fight each other to gain more power and show that their civilization is stronger than others. It is fair to say that humans have progressed civilizations going back to the first little civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, to now looking at a huge city like New York City with its giant buildings and massive number of people living there. The question remains however, how do civilizations expand. There are number of ways that society’s expanded over the years, however, the successful civilizations were able to expand their culture, settle on new lands, and trade. Societies were able to form once humans began to communicate with one another. Millions of years ago humans did have the ability to communicate mostly because their brains were to small process language. After a while humans developed brains that would allow them to speak and be able to work with tools. Once humans were able to perfect these skills they would then be able to come together
Also the more a society puts out in terms of export the more money that society will gain. As it was explained earlier, in order for a society to expand it needed to settle new lands. These new lands would often provide a source of new natural resources not found in the general area of a civilization. The island of Azores had a lot of vegetation and was visited a lot by both France and Portugal. Both countries would get raw materials that the island had and export them to make a profit. The number one good that was being exported from the island was sugar. The more exports a society had the more wealth it would