In the ancient Roman Republic, a complex political system was in place. Much like America, it was an indirect representative democracy. It also had a system of checks and balances, a way to accommodate two social classes, and set terms for every office. Romans system of government pushed politicians like Sulla and Marius to the extremes. Maintaining ones office was hard enough in Rome, but Roman culture
To get there they had to think of ways to help them in their conquest of lands whether it is swords or other technologies. There political and environmental characteristics were pretty impressive, but who know which one was better. Rome was an empire known for its tough army and its vast line of rulers who conquered and crushed anyone who got in there way. The Maurya too was powerful with its rulers,
Since the beginning of civilizations there as always been social stratification or an arrangement in social classes. For instance, there would be the lower class, middle class and of course upper class. Then there is also social inequality. Based on documents from 1000 B.C.E through 465 B.C.E, I can analyze the causes of, and responses to, social inequality during the Classical Age, as well as explaining how one’s status within society influenced one’s perspective of events in that society. Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society.
Roman law was perhaps Rome's greatest contribution to mankind, Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome. Roman law has affected the development of law in most of Western civilization. It forms the basis for the law codes of most countries of continental Europe and derivative systems elsewhere. Roman Citizens many of the protections and rights given to people under Roman law only applied to Roman citizens. There were even different levels of Roman citizenship, each one having rights than the next.
The reason Sparta had so many levels of government was because they had to control and limit the kings in case they got too much power. In contrast, Athens was a democracy, which meant that it was ruled by the people. However democracy in ancient Athens was quite different from the way it is practised today. Athens was a direct democracy were every decision was made by a big group of eligible citizens in some cases there were more than 6000 citizens involved. The Athenians also had a council of 500 men called the boule.
This is portrayed well in the novel, Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens and in the film Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese. Both of these works have very apparent levels of inequalities in two very different communities at approximately the same time in history. Social inequality engulfs most aspects of nearly all societies. According to max Weber, power is broken down into three sub categories: Class, status honor, and parties. He believes class is established through available life chances as well as the ownership of property and production.
Therefore, the nobles had very expensive tailored clothes, whilst the poor people had clothes in order to cover themselves. Every social group had their own dress code like the military, whom had their armors finely done by a very good blacksmith. The armors’ design contained the symbol of the city that the army was from. Nowadays, the military from every country has a certain style and every uniform is distinguished from another one in their symbols and what other things they may have. Even in this group, there are several differences between soldiers, as their uniforms can differ thanks to the rank that they may have.
There were great differences as well as similarities in the impact of interactions by the Spanish to both the Colonial Spanish-America and the Ottoman Empire. The Spanish had a much more overpowering impact to the Colonial Spanish-America seeing as to the many changes that left the native culture disappearing or fading while the conquerors dominated, unlike in the Ottoman Empire. A social hierarchy was formed based on race as the native and non-native people mixed. The only class to hold high government power was those who were born in Spain which shows their dominance. This left the Native Americans and Africans in the bottom of the hierarchy while being denied many economic opportunities.
154) After the rise of Julius Caesar the whole Mediterranean world became under roman legeslation. (pg.154) One of the most profound leaders under Julius Caesar, Marcus Cicero a philosopher who oppossed tyranny and political corruption. (pg.154) Cicero believed that monarchy, aristocracy and Democracy were the three principles of construction to a good government. (pg.155) Rome was more based on a legeslative attack, romans in the old days are more recollected for having great knowledge of the world we live in today. One of the most influential people in Rome was Marcus Cicero, a great philopsoper as we say and exam most of his work today we see a story of a honored and respected man as well as loyal, but his loyalty would prove to be his greatest downfall and which would lead to his exicution.
Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome Greg Shumaker In the ancient world, Rome was regarded as the capital of culture, philosophy and fine arts. During the days of the empire it also earned a reputation for excesses in crime and punishment. No one was more powerful than the Roman emperor. No one could disobey or defy him without risking their lives. Rome had a governing body known as the Senate, there were also two government heads called Consuls.