Most peasants had very little and barely made it through the taxes the king reinforced. Culture achievements: The Indus river valley people valued water and cleanliness. They had no weapons which meant no war and there were no signs of violence. They had a wheel that made pottery, they had a writing system but it has not yet been translated. They had a religion and were polytheistic, revered, respected animals, they believed in afterlife.
When someone was so poor that he couldn’t afford a horse, a tent, or blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn’t know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by this wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, and no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don’t know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamentals things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.” This quote was stated by, John (Fire) Lame Deer, a wichasha wakan (The Holy Man).
The city- states were ruled by kings who set boundaries, regulated religion, provided justice, and led the armies. The elite kings, priests, and nobles controlled much of the land, which was worked by slaves. Sumerian civilization established the basic traditions for all Mesopotamian civilizations. Although larger political empires occasionally merged, the city-state remained the elemental principle of political organization in Sumeria. The economy continued to rely on slave labor.
The baka tribe, although seemingly primitive in comparison to modern Britain share many similar beliefs and values, and on an whole are actually not that different, obviously they do not use the technology that we do but the basic structure of their society are much the same. The Baka practice Monogamous marriage, have a freedom to express their sentiments publically the same as modern Britain. Although there is no monetary system in place they exchange their goods with outside people for clothes and items that they cannot gather or produce themselves. A big difference in the structure of their society is the way they get the food that they need, they hunt and gather rather than farm, this is done as a collective and the food is prepared and shared between the whole tribe, so it could be similar to a basic welfare system as in Modern Britain. Role-play is evident amongst the Baka and yet the women are not treated any less than the men and seem to have equality with the men, and are considered politically influential and respected.
(This is an indirect comparison, not a direct comparison) For instance it went from the Pharaoh, high priests and nobles,scribes,craftsmen to the last class which were the slaves. Each city in Egypt had a king. The structure of their society was not based on the gender but based on the social classes. As well as the Mesopotamians, the Ancient Egyptian women bore and raised the children while then men taught the boys how to trade. The Mesopotamians believed in over fifty gods and goddesses, but four of these were held in greater importance.
The Cunningham’s never took anything they can’t pay back”. Harper Lee try’s to show us through the characters words that in Maycomb there are different classes. The Finches are poor but the Cunningham’s have nothing at all to pay anyone back with which makes them below working class. This quote shows how Harper Lee has written this scene to show readers the aspect of different standards of living in Maycomb. The different classes of family’s were very important because it went towards your reputation and although the Cunningham’s were very poor, the fact they wouldn’t accept anything they couldn’t pay back showed that they were a very proud family.
With laissez-faire and social Darwinism, the government had no demand to interfere with big businesses, allowing them to make their own rules, safety conditions, and handle employees as they please. As a result, employees were faced with owners who no concern about their livelihood. The government did not have a responsibility to maintain safety standards, such as emergency exits, adequate fire hoses, and water source inside the buildings. Leaving these ‘burdens’ on factory owners meant safety measures were never taken. On March 25, 1911 when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, many young women and men were then trapped and had no escape.
There are no spoken words of boundaries or constrictions of class. Every inhabitant of the society, however, binds themselves to their own place in society. They classify themselves and each other according to their beliefs, ethnicity, and most of all, wealth. In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family and other farming families have been evaluated as worthless due to being unable to grow crops in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma and have been kicked off their farms due to being unable to pay the banks. An individual's place in society is wherever one wishes to be, yet people bind themselves excessively in order to earn an income.
Nonetheless, it is difficult for someone to grasp a clear understanding of why and to what extent the job of the knocker is absolutely necessary in the slaughterhouse. Everyone is free to make choices, yet in the industrialized slaughterhouse, the knocker—among all 121 workers— is offered the least sense of agency. One might say the knocker has the option of not shooting the cattle, but in reality he does not. The knocker’s lack of agency exists for two reasons: The obvious and most logical reason the knocker would not stop what he does is because he will slow down the line. In turn, he runs the risk of being dismissed from the slaughterhouse and left out of a job.
The men do the hunting and the women go out and gather things such as nuts and berries for the tribe to survive on. This hunting and gathering style is how the society of the Nayar people lives. They do not build any type of permanent shelter as they do not know how long they will live in one place. Nayar people must be able to get up and move at any given moment if the natural resources they are using become scarce. They do not supply any food of their own by planting crops.