The United Nations is a vital body for upholding and preserving human rights.  In prehistory, no such entity existed, leaving nations subject to subordination and exploitation.  Perhaps if one had, the entire conquest and extinction of certain cultures would have never occurred and society today would be filled with even more diverse and varied worldwide cultures.  A United Nations in prehistory would have secured and promised many valuable ideals for the success of ancient societies.  Literacy, environmental variables, and domesticables would have been assured to all of the societies of prehistory.

    Literacy has always played a vital role in prominent societies.  It supplies the means for communication, both to other nations and among its own people; it also is a means for recorded history and information.  A United Nations would promise the right for a prehistoric society to acquire and maintain a literate population so that all societies could exist on a level playing field.  The importance of literacy is elucidated in the study of Pizzaro’s conquest of Atahuallpa and his people.  The literacy of Pizzaro allowed him not only to document the entire event, leaving Eurocentric history’s mark on the world, but also to acquire prior knowledge of the land and Atahuallpa’s people.  Had Atahuallpa acquired knowledge of the conquistadors, he might not have suffered such an awful fate due to the fact that he could have attained knowledge of previous conquered societies.  His only means of communication with other empires was to send messengers who carried information orally.  This proved to be a major disadvantage.  Had he possessed the ability to write detailed descriptions of his situation, he would have perhaps been able to acquire reinforcements or to at least have warning of the arrival of Pizzaro’s men.  A society needed to possess literacy in order to protect itself as well as to communicate and expand successfully.  Although literacy was vital, environmental variables were also needed for a society to survive.

    A society can only be as prosperous as the diversity of its environment and so therefore the prehistoric United Nations would promise this to every society.  A diversified environment filled with all the essential environmental variables is vital for the creation and maintenance of societies.  The natural experiment of the Polynesian islands in a prime example of the difference of a nation  lacking or flourishing with their environmental variables.  The six variables in this situation are area, island climate, geological type, marine resources, terrain fragmentation, and isolation.   One society who possessed all of these in bountiful amounts was the Maori; a society who lacked these was the Moriori. The Maori had the means to expand because they had a larger land mass than the Moriori.  Maori people also enjoyed a farther more favorable climate than the frigid temperatures that the Moriori faced.  Faced with a variety of better tool and weapon making geological types, the Maroi could dominate the tools and weapons of the Moriori.  The Maori had favorable landscapes with not too many or too little geographic obstacles.  The Moriori were more isolated than the Maori, and therefore were not accustomed to foreign tribes, giving them a disadvantage in interacting with the Maori.  The Maroi had more favorable variables than the Moriori.  If the Moriori had acquired these variables then they would not have been conquered so quickly.  A United Nations would guarantee every nation a right to these variables for the sake of survival; they would also promise domesticables as part of the society’s environment.    

    Possessing domesticables can determine the longevity and lifestyles of that society.  A United Nations in prehistory would promise this to all nations in order to assure that they could sustain their people.  Domesticables are what allows a society to go from a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle to that of a structured village.  On Easter Island, chickens were domesticated.  In this sense the people of Easter Island could focus their attention on solely building chicken houses.  They became experts of this trade and therefore the opportunities for surplus and economy were created.  A surplus in food leads to the creation of different social classes.  If every member of the society is not actively out gathering food simply to eat on a daily basis, then there is time alloted for the differentiation of these classes.  People would still exist to create and maintain a food source and surplus, but artisans, tradesmen, and politicians could also emerge.  Not only is this essential for the society to flourish within itself, but it also allows it to expand into successful relations with other nations.  A surplus, granted by the existence of domesticables, would be guaranteed to every society by a prehistoric United Nations.

    A Declaration of Human Rights in prehistory would  guarantee all nations the right to possess literacy, environmental variables, and domesticables.  The possession of literacy would provide all societies with the ability to communicate, expand their knowledge, and record their history.  Environmental variables should be alloted to each society in order for there to be a chance for the maintenance of that society’s survival and welfare.  No society should be kept from attaining domesticables for the means of creating a surplus with which they could rely on for survival and expansion of social classes.  Essentially, a prehistoric United Nations would assure the same necessary and inalienable rights to possessions and abstract ideals to every existing society so that no one society would be crushed by another due to the mere lack of location.     
  

Inspiration and information from Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond