How did teenagers rebel 8,000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 1000 years ago, 500 years ago?

Surely they must have. Just curious.How did teenagers rebel 8,000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 1000 years ago, 500 years ago?
Whatever their parents wanted for them, they did the Opposite...





It's always been about the search for one's own true identity!How did teenagers rebel 8,000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 1000 years ago, 500 years ago?
'Rebellion' at puberty is the norm for human beings.


An analogy is in the deer family. All summer while their antlers are n the velvet, they are calm and docile and all the males run together. Then in the fall they have a surge of hormones, their antlers stop growing and harden and they get aggressive.


At the onset of puberty (roughly the teen years) there is a hormonal surge and teenagers 'rebel' against the co-dependent relationships they have been in for most of their lives trying to become independent. What form this 'rebellion' manifests itself in depends largely on the environment the kid is in. Like mentioned, Alexander the Great drove his chariot...probably out 'hot rodding' like today's teenagers are prone to do in their vehicles. Use your imagination and think from the perspective of what was available for a teenager in a particular culture and time period.
I am sure they did, but of course in the oldest time phases you mentioned the teenagers would have in fact been considered adult tribes people with adult responsibilities. In the stone age lifespan was only 30-40, in the iron age maybe ten years older. So possibily taking on adult roles would have channelled their natural rebellion.
We have a first hand account of youthful rebellion in the fourth century AD. St Augustine of Hippo wrote 'Confessions', which includes long sections about his teenage years before his conversion to Christianity. One story which he recounts is about how he was involved with a gang of yobs who stripped all the fruit off somone's pear tree and threw it away, just for the hell of it. He also writes about his sexual misconduct and his intellectual arrogance at that time.
Married / dated people their parents didn't approve of.





The adulthood at 18 thing is new. Women would be married at 14 - 16 during much of the past, and premarried sex was far more rare, which is easier when one gets married so young!





They didn't likely wear anything rebellious, they didn't have enough clothing for that. You might only own 3 outfits in those days.





Boys might not take up their father's business, and leave home instead when they were expected to remain there. And they fought with their parents I'm sure, and snuck out to see friends and romantic partners.





I believe I read that Alexander the Great would go chariot riding when he was supposed to be studying.
Eve was the original REBEL. Adam just went along because the sex was great. Alexander The Great conquered the known world in his twenties and then died from syphilis. He started young !


My boy wouldn't cut his hair after he learned the story of Samson and Delilah, so I told him to go find his own cave to dwell in. Lol.


Tell your rebel, seriously, read a book. Pay attention in history class, or just in school period. They just might figure out how great we have things and be thankful to those who provide for them.
what you call rebelling is just a normal reaction to to days Society.


in the past there was no need for.