How were ancient times different from modern times?
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In most ancient cultures, there was no outside government that stood separate from family, tribe, and religion. Police as a force that attempts to be neutral was unheard of.
When someone committed a crime against you, it was your responsibility, or that of your family or tribe, to enact revenge, as this revenge was the deterrence against further injury. There were no neutral third parties to arrest, judge, and fine.
Who you trusted and allied with was connected to family ties: if your sister was the wife of their uncle, you could probably trust them. The idea of having secular and non-familial institutions that could be trusted was unheard of.
This is why so many works of literature from ancient times go into depth as to who the heroes were, who their family was, and what their deeds were: this was fundamentally who they were.
In modern times, we can move to a new city, get a job, buy a house, buy a car, and do other major interactions with people we have never met and with whom we hold no blood ties. We can trust that they will be honest, and if they are not, we have means beyond personal or familial revenge to secure restitution. Outside of some more remote parts of the world, the reputation and family focused worldview is no longer the norm.
Hope it helps you buddy....
In most ancient cultures, there was no outside government that stood separate from family, tribe, and religion. Police as a force that attempts to be neutral was unheard of.
When someone committed a crime against you, it was your responsibility, or that of your family or tribe, to enact revenge, as this revenge was the deterrence against further injury. There were no neutral third parties to arrest, judge, and fine.
Who you trusted and allied with was connected to family ties: if your sister was the wife of their uncle, you could probably trust them. The idea of having secular and non-familial institutions that could be trusted was unheard of.
This is why so many works of literature from ancient times go into depth as to who the heroes were, who their family was, and what their deeds were: this was fundamentally who they were.
In modern times, we can move to a new city, get a job, buy a house, buy a car, and do other major interactions with people we have never met and with whom we hold no blood ties. We can trust that they will be honest, and if they are not, we have means beyond personal or familial revenge to secure restitution. Outside of some more remote parts of the world, the reputation and family focused worldview is no longer the norm.
Hope it helps you buddy....
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The life expectancy in the primitive age is much less than as compared to modern society. The ancient man was driven more by the reality of nature and in contrast to that modern human beings cannot imagine life without modern technological advancement, for example, life without electricity is hard to imagine.
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