THE ORIGINS OF POLITICS AND THE BEGINNING OF PREHISTORY
OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Uniwersytet w Białymstoku
Publication date: 2020-01-26
Studia Politologiczne 2010;17
ABSTRACT
Politics is the specific form of action in human communities that, as a result
of the evolution of social relations, were mobilized to establish – in huge areas
and by use of all available measures – the order they regarded as the necessary
one. As a specific social activity, politics emerged in separate habitats. At first in
Mesopotamia, Egypt and China in the fourth and third millennium BC, when
agriculture was initiated and it achieved the efficiency that allowed increasing
human population radically to the size forcing people to form groups of non-related
individuals, capable of competing against each other in a large area. Then, politics
appeared in other areas of our planet inhabited by people.