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[–]JollyPurple 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Look up Maria Gimbutas and the Kurgan Invasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis

The world was matrifocal/matrilineal and peaceful (communities had no walls/protective barriers (See Minoan, Malta, Çatalhöyük -and other Neolithic Antolian civilizations), weapons were not found in burials, men and women were buried with the same level of goods-women slightly more, etc)until the 3 waves of the Kurgan invasions. It was the proto-indo-europeans that created patriarchy. It started much earlier than the civilizations you are discussing, and before the modern civilizations that we are so familiar today like the Arabs, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, etc.

The Kurgan invasion was a hypothesis, and many discredited her findings, until recent DNA has proven her work (see the Yamnaya culture).

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/thousands-horsemen-may-have-swept-bronze-age-europe-transforming-local-population

Now the Kurgan invasion theory is the most widely accepted for the dawn of the proto-indo-europeans and the start of patriarchy.

Good books to check out are:

Any book by Maria Gimbutas

The Chalice and the Blade

Invisible women of the prehistory : three million years of peace, six thousand years of war

When God was a Woman