№ 2020/1

The article opens a cycle of publications devoted to the universal evolution of the Ancient civilization and its sub-civilizations. The author analyzes the origins and history of the formation of Greek-Hellenistic subcivilization in the mainland and island parts of Ancient Greece, and the characteristics of the Crete-Cycladic civi-lization vanguard.
The author determines the features of the Ancient Greek social evolution in the Stone and Copper epochs, including: the coexistence and interaction of the min-imum and maximum communities of the pre-tribal level, the collective-individual exo-acquisition of the formers’ territories by the latters; the beginning of develop-ment of the Neolithic revolution in the community, and not in the tribe and tribal union; and the dominance of evolutionary lines: 3.2.2.2.2 – irrigated agriculture and cattle breeding – in the mainland and 3.2.2.2.3 – irrigated agriculture, cattle breeding and sea fishing – in the island part.
Identified the qualitative characteristics of the civilized Crete-Cycladic area, which designate its membership in the Middle subtype of the Eastern type of social evolution, namely: territorially localized activity-type diversity in the community and tribe, and not the tribal union; state formation mainly on the tribal, not uniontribal substrate; interaction of palace, city, grandee and communal farms; the appear-ance of elements of private exo-acquisition – both relatively isolated and interwoven into the fabric of the power-ownership exo-acquisition, positioning the per-sonal-corporate personal-clan-private form of the latter as a state feature; the non-despotic nature of theocracy, and the absence of the priestly vertical and the deification of the king.

Keywords:civilization, sub-civilization, minimum and maximum community, evolutionary line, type and subtype of social evolution, economy, exo-acquisition, state form, pow-er-property, theocracy