Monday, October 31, 2011

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Chapter 6: Eurasian And Social Hierarchies

The way that a Hierarchy works is that it categorizes all the citizens in different classes and each class stands for status and authority.  It is meant to create organization, but it is completely the opposite.  Rather than keeping things organized, the idea of creating hierarchies causes revolts and movements which creates a whole mess of problems.  It is a normal thing in societies.  Take India for instance, that had different rankings which is called a Caste System.  There was the Caste as Varna which was for people who had lighter skin.  Then there was the Caste as Jati was based around the type of jobs that a person had.  All civilizations have there ways of organizing their societies, but in the end with the structure of hierarchy comes disaster.