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Ancient Europeans wrote about Ages of Man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man There are also many other references to various types of world ages or Ages of Man in Hopi (worlds), Mayan (suns) and other cultures of antiquity. Giorgio de Santillana, the former professsor of the history of science, mentions approximately thirty ancient cultures that believed in the concept of a series of ages and the rise and fall of history, with alternating Dark and Golden Ages. More details of these Ages are available in the Yuga concept of the Hindus. The Hindu Puranas compared the alternating Dark and Golden Ages with alternating dark and bright periods of day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Yuga During Satya Yuga (or Kritha Yuga), there were no kings and no laws. Pleple lived in harmony with nature and with one other. There were no fights or wars. That was about 4,300,000 years years ago, and Kritha Yuga lasted for about 1,700,000 years. Kings and laws originated in Tretha Yuga which came next.
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Most modern-day laws originated in England.
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When the first cave man threw a rock at the first cave woman?
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One of the oldest known formal legal systems is the Code of Hammurabi, about 1750BC. Obviously people must have had laws before then, but they were not (to out knowledge) written down. They were probably a combination of custom and "the chief says...".
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When the first stone age bully said, "Do what I say, or else." Modern formal written laws have their various beginnings with the earliest of civilizations, the earliest of religions, and the earliest concepts of social order.
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