A broad perspective on real estate ownership from 11,000 years ago to now

In the last 11,000 years, only a few societies evolved into food production communities, starting in China, Fertile Crescent and Mexico. Interestingly, populations grew, started to create "divisions of labor," and lead to government states. Before these trends towards plant and animal domestication, populations banded in small tribes as hunter/gatherers. Invitably, modern societies developed the trend of private property, real estate and the Have and Have-nots. The Haves then wrote laws, hired police forces and military to protect and promote their economic interests first through colonization and later through international corporations and franchises.