Social and order maintenance Celtic and Roman Britain Compare and contrast order maintenance arrangements in Celtic and Roman Britain. How do these compare with order maintenance arrangements in modern Britain? There are a number of similarities between the way order was maintained in Celtic and Roman Britain and the way order was maintained in modern Britain. The Celts used a system of fines imposed on its people, much the way we do in modern Britain. If a person could not pay the fine, they would be an outcast with in the social tribe and isolated, they would be prevented from participating in religious rites and lose their civil rights too.
RUSSIA NOTES: OPPOSITION Themes: Division, strength of govt., disorganisation OR Intelligentsia, minorities, peasants The Russian Revolutionary Tradition Westerners Liberals (Intelligentsia etc.) look towards European ideas: Want Liberal democracies, Middle Classes, want industrialisation and technology, create a WC Socialism and Marxism led by intellectuals Russia is morally weak and outdated Humiliation in war (Crimea, RT, RJ). No longer “great power”. Modernisers (Libs, Marxists) Technocrats (With, Stolypin) support govt. and opponents Slavophils Looked towards Russian history Peasant communes (Mir) say socialisms already there (PC) Agricultural society (land) Religious purity/ racial purity of Russia Russia
The Gracchi Brothers The Gracchi were two brothers who felt that the Roman Republic was treating its citizens poorly, and sought election in an effort to enact legislation that would broaden the franchise and protect the plebeians from debt, slavery and other social threats. Both were killed by their conservative political opponents. While Roman class and social affairs had for centuries consisted of machinations by various individuals to get their way, the activities of the Gracchi completely altered the state of Roman politics. The Gracchi brothers had the interests of Rome at heart, instead of their own, which wasn’t a common attitude amongst the other senators. The reforms the Gracchi tried to pass were long over-due and their programs
ISBN 9780691142623. $39.50. Reviewed by Timothy Howe, Saint Olaf College (howe@stolaf.edu) In The last pharaohs, J. G. Manning attempts to bring Ptolemaic Egypt, and the economic policies of the Ptolemaic state, out of isolation from other fields of ancient Mediterranean history. Often seen as "a place apart," especially by classicists focused on Greece and Rome, Ptolemaic Egypt has entered historical conversations tangentially, as a stage for wider Roman policy, for instance, or as a counterpoint to classical, polis civilization. Here, Manning is reacting against the scholarly tendency to assess
They had two different beliefs that separated the wealthy and the poor. These categories were (Olympian Deities) god of the skies and mountain tops; also, (Chthonian Deities) the god of the underworld which was mainly worshiped by the peasants. This is what separates these two societies; Roman beliefs they were very complex among the people. Many of these Roman people believe in one (God or Christ) and their successors of Bishops and emperors. The Emperors and Bishops were looked at as Gods to do the work of the gods to oversee the
Document 2 is written by Huan Guan, another Han government official, stating his views on the iron tools used to make salt and iron. He tells how the tools that people had to use now were very crude and not very functional. This shows that he favors technological advances so that people can own better tools. Document 3 was written by an upper-class philosopher Huan Tan. He wrote about how Fuxi, a wise mythological emperor, was the inventor of the pestle and mortar.
Nicholas Baker Nature, Society and Self 09/25/2010 Summarize and Contrast In Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience,” written in 1849, he explains that the real meaning of this is “disobedience of the state.” He feels that any person associated with the law is a disgrace. Much like the tax payers of Concord who care more about farming and agriculture then humanity are hypocrites for supporting Thoreau’s cause to ban slavery and stop the war against Mexico, when in fact they pay taxes to the state and government which directly helps pay for the war itself. He feels that the government is also responsible for many injustices because many government employees in fact change their positions on war and that it is “not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize.” Thoreau explains that many people who do not support these laws also believe in the political way to change them, and continue to respect these laws until they are changed. He feels that the process of which is drawn out and that it may take years for laws to be changed, and that abolitionists should stand up for what they believe in and rebel against the constitution regardless of imprisonment. Thoreau was imprisoned after refusing to pay taxes, and says he felt free when he was jailed.
QTR 3 Exam American History * NYE Committee: reason of WW1, sale of arms * Neutrality Act Of 35: US cant sell arms to another country at war * Destroyers for bases: sent bases for territory * Lend-lease act: countries no longer had to pay cash * Fair employment practice: enforced non-discriminating policies * Napalm: Japan Fire Bomb * Double V: Racism at home, racism by Hitler * Bataan death march: occurred on the Philippine islands * Bracero Program: brought Spanish workers from Mexico into the US to work in the agriculture fields * Korematsu vs. US: relocation of Japanese/Chinese because of fear of communism * 4 zones of Germany: French, Russian, US, and United Kingdom * Korean War: North
The Augustan poets Horace[1] and Virgil are slanted towards Rome, as both were poet laureate to Augustus[2]. Horace’s writing is autobiographical and deals with moral and political issues with Greek and Roman mythology woven into the texture. Horace’s “The Cleopatra Ode”[3] from Odes supports Augustus’ causes and reflects his point of view although not commissioned by him. Cleopatra is depicted as a power-hungry woman seeking to control Rome, the propagandist view spread by
In this essay, I will explore the conflicts that prevailed between the Athenian aristocracy, citizens who controlled most of society’s land and therefore wealth, and its peasantry, those who owned no land and lacked social mobility; the proliferation of blood feuds between different aristocratic factions; and the impact of Solon’s reform on Athenian society. As a principle source, I will refer to Plutarch’s “The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives.” Part I In this first part of the essay, I will examine the strife between the two primary classes in Athens during the time of Solon: aristocrats and peasants. As stated above, to be considered an aristocrat one had to be in possession of significant property, primarily land, and animals. There were two types of peasants: one owned some land (albeit this land tended to be unfertile), and the other peasant owned no land and grew crops on land lent to them in exchange for a sixth of their harvest. Peasants who did own their own lands did not have enough resources to keep some seed of their crop and continuously had to borrow seed from the rich, but without any property or material good they had to use their own freedom as collateral nd become debt slaves if they defaulted on their loans.