Actual civilizations may have existed for something like 12,000 years, possibly earliest in the region of the Middle East. Humanity's primary challenge was simply to survive. If a family had enough food, avoided disease, and was not killed or enslaved by powerful leaders, they did survive.
Change took thousands of years. What people have or expect or demand in today's world wasn't even imagined thousands of years ago . . even hundreds of years ago.
Concern for "human rights" took a very long time to develop. Here's an early writer working to develop the value of human rights less than 350 years ago.
(cont'd tomorrow)
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