The development of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Before agriculture, humans lived a mostly nomadic life, moving from place to place, following the food. Agriculture enabled people to settle down. Instead of spending almost all of the year centered around food, humans could now raise enough food in a month to serve their needs for the entire year.
Then, other things became important: protecting the food against others who might have had a bad harvest, property rights, and a hierarchy. Someone had to be in charge whereas before the shaman had been in charge. But the shaman was a people-person and agricultural societies required someone who was less sentimental. The shaman types became the fuel for the “structural-nucleus” or SN. The San and shaman had laid the foundation for what was developing. People like them–community-oriented, selfless, innovative–would be the basis for the post-agricultural world.
The world is still set up the same way today. About 6,000 years ago, our current model of states and countries and societies took form. These states were and still are dependent on a large number of IMPACTS to make things work and keep the wheels turning.
As I have said, everything is based on the model of the hydrogen atom. When the proton nucleus “captures” an electron, then that electron seeks to bond with another electron, and when it does, a whole new structure is formed–a molecule. The same occurred with agriculture–the IMPACTS were captured and the new structure of “civilization” began to form–with a controlling nucleus at the core.