As man evolved and progressed after the ice age,did morals already exist, or was there an age of out of?

Question

control immorality where morality evolved out of necessity for survival?...............in other words, in the case of the the first major civilaztions when one superior leader could weild never before seen power of people, did that person have an innate sense of morality, or was he left to do whatever he wanted...........

Answer 1

He couldn't do what he wanted because humans are very dangerous.  He had to learn politics to control them.  Morals are cultural rules and common sense that allows us to live together and we have historically only applied them to friends.

Answer 2

You have to realize the cooperation that it took to create the early civilization:

"Arable land had literally to be created out of a chaos of swamps and sand banks by a 'separation' of land from water; the swamps ... drained; the floods controlled; and lifegiving waters led to the rainless desert by artificial canals." In the course of the several successive cultural phases that followed the arrival of the first Neolithic farmers, these and other related problems were solved by cooperative effort. Between 3500 B.C. and 3100 B.C. the foundations were laid for a type of economy and social order markedly different from anything previously known. This far more complex culture, based on large urban centers rather than simple villages, is what we associate with civilization.

Moreover, the layout and clearing of the canals required expert planning, while the division of the irrigated land, the water, and the crops demanded political control. By 3000 B. c. the Sumerians had solved this problem by forming "temple-communities," in which a class of priest-bureaucrats con- trolled the political and economic life of the city in the name of the city gods.

The gods seemed hopelessly violent and unpredictable, and one's life a period of slavery to their whims. The epic poem, The Creation, emphasizes that mortals were created to enable the gods to give up working.

There was fighting among the city states:

The Sumerian city-states engaged in constant internecine struggle, exhausting their military resources. Eannatum (fl. about 2425 BC), one of the rulers of Lagash, succeeded in extending his rule throughout Sumer and some of the neighboring lands. His success, however, was short-lived. The last of his successors, Uruinimgina (fl. about 2365 BC), who was noteworthy for instituting many social reforms, was defeated by Lugalzagesi (reigned about 2370-2347)

http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm

In the earliest Sumerian myths, a mother-goddess was the central figure of creation. She may have reflected the honored role of mothers in early farming communities. An ancient proverb advised, "Pay heed to the word of your mother as though it were the word of a god."

As large city-states emerged with the warrior leaders at their head, male gods who resembled early kings replaced the older mother-goddess.

http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/Ancient...

Answer 3

Nope. He tried, but the mother ship came by and carried him off.