organization of space as they resulted from wheel, road, and 
papyrus could go as follows: There was first the village, which 
lacked all of these group extensions of the private physical 
body. The village, however, was already a form of community 
different from that of food-gathering hunters and fishers, for 
villagers may be sedentary and may begin a division of labor 
and functions. Their being congregated is, itself, a form of 
acceleration of human activities which provides momentum for 
further separation and specialization of action. Such are the 
conditions for the extension of feet-as-wheel to speed 
production and exchange. These are, also, the conditions that 
intensify communal conflicts and ruptures that send men 
huddling into ever larger aggregates, in order to resist the 
accelerated activities of other communities. The villages are 
swept up into the city-state by way of resistance and for the 
purpose of security and protection.