Answer» - After settling down at one place for a long time, a feeling of ownership arose among neolithic people.
- This feeling was focused on their individual dwellings and the piece of land cultivated by them.
- With social organization and administration, the villages expanded.
- Along with it, awareness of collective landholdings and the village boundaries became prominent.
- It was thus felt that the village community had a natural right over the immediate territory around the village periphery.
- This kind of awareness of natural rights over a particular region is known as ‘territoriality’.
- Rules and norms were created to manage the collective resources, water sources, crafts dependent on it, trade and community life, etc. Consequently, rituals and their details gained importance.
- The need of managing and keeping records of trade, rituals, writing, systems, and administrative machinery developed.
- It gave rise to administrative centers. Such administrative centers attract a large population that includes officials, people from various occupations.
- As a result, the periphery of the original settlement kept expanding and cities came into being. Thus, began the process of urbanization in the Neolithic age.
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