Essay On Ancient Civilizations

Over time, civilizations tend to evolve and change for the better. Over many centuries, many nations and empires have risen and fallen. Two of these ancient civilizations were Mesopotamia and Greece. In Mesopotamia, there was a city called Babylon and lived under the laws of the Code of Hammurabi, which were written in 1780 B.C. In Athens Greece, Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who wrote a book called Politics, what laws and government the people of Athens lived under in 350 B.C. These two ancient civilizations were 1430 years apart from each other. In those 1430 years it is thought that politics and laws would have advanced since the time of Babylon. By the time of Aristotle, the laws were far less harsher than those of Babylon. In the

These elements are “one class is very rich, another very poor and a third in a mean” (Aristotle Book 10). According to Aristotle, the middle class, or the mean, are the best to run the state. The middle class would better fit to run the state because they understand what it is like to not get there way and they have learned to do things themselves. The higher class and the lower class will find it hard to rationalize principles. The middle class is the least likely to stray from the rules and will not be over ambitious. Those who have too much would not submit to authority and those who have too little are too disadvantaged. Aristotle states that a society should be made as fair as possible of those who are similar and equal and this is usually the middle class. “Wherefore the city is which is composed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best constituted in respect of the elements of which we sat the fabric of state consists” (). According to Aristotle, every city is made up of quantity and quality. In Athens, there is quality of wealth, good birth and education and everyone has quantity by superiority in numbers. The government can only be stable when the middle class can exceed either one or both of the other classes