The Route to Success

When reading about the Neolithic Era, a theme and continuous notion began to pop up, and I worded it in a way that shows both the positive and negative elements to it. This demonstrates exactly how the people in that time period struggled to find a balance between the pros and cons of an invention or idea. The people in the Neolithic Era exemplified the notion that the key to success if failure because through the revolutions and theories which were applied to society, they experienced both positive and negative outcomes as well as challenges which presented them with options that consistently returned to the idea of sustaining a connection between society in the environment. 

The principle of irrigation was developed as societies needed to find methods to efficiently and productively transport water from the distant water sources, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to their community. The civilization needed to come up with ways in which they can transfer sufficient amounts of water from the rivers to society without spilling mass amounts. They needed such a water source for the fundamental survival need of drinking, as well as to grow foods, plants, and livestock on newly developed farms. Irrigation expanded civilization exceedingly, as it sprouted an entirely new era of producing food and allowed people to trade and share foods since it was coming in larger amounts than before as a hunter brought in one animal for many individuals. This change initiated trade and expanded societies who traded with one another, creating new relationships in the process. While this was an extreme positive which came out of the invention of irrigation, there was also the immense danger that heavy rains could flood the rivers, therefore flowing huge amounts of water into communities and farms via irrigation systems, destroying farms and several human and animal lives on the way. This was the environment's method restoring balance and order into society, as it (water) was not intended to be utilized in this way. Therefore, with the relationship between humans and their environment thriving to a new level, the connection was forced to backtrack and restart the process of development again, as it was obviously flawed and not stable and agreeable with the environment. Through the connection with the environment, humanity was faced with an enormous failure and in need of revision of the method of irrigation. This failure, though, led to further adaptation and alteration of the notion of irrigation, and with the combination of the learned mistakes from the failure as well as further developed logic and thought, society was able to take the failure and use it to their complete advantage. They established a new, revised method of irrigation and transportation of water, forming a massive success. 

This illustrates an ideal example of how society found the key to success in failure. As peculiar as it may be, society develops and progresses only when a failure occurs as a result of a revolution or new idea; it is (mostly) bound for failure. Although, using the failure as experience and demonstration, humanity is then able to use what they have learned and apply it to create something more successful and developed than they ever envisioned.