Ancient Civilization Authority

From the origins of civilization to the seventeenth century, we have learned of many transformations that have taken place. In this essay, I will elaborate on the background of the ancient period, medieval period, and early modern period. I will also be providing examples for each period, in hopes of displaying the message as to how civilizations maintained authority and how that authority changes within each era.

The ancient period (3 Ages) of history begins in about 6000 B.C with The Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age). Many people during this time were mostly hunters and gathers of food, which lead Paleolithic people to shape their social development. Paleolithic people developed some of the first unknown spoken language. The developed wood,

Because religion was the central force in these primary civilizations, it is hard to predict how civilizations were able maintained authority. Authority was not as necessarily maintained as it was in the Early Period since these people were just establishing the basic way of life. Most people were not able to justify wrong from right. So in this period the only form of authority was religion. Because the ancient period was before Christ, you don’t have such eradicate ideas to punish or award people. The people in the ancient period could have also had systematic power because at this point in society people are beginning to establish small cities and of course there has to be some kind of reform to governor these people. So with the beginning of writing, you had the Sumerians who we able to create laws and reforms based off cuneiform. In the ancient period I only see to types of authorities and that’s through religious and systematic

They were basically stating that the society in which they now lived was significantly more civilized and advanced in many ways, than that which had existed during the previous thousand years.” The medieval Period is considered to have consisted of the early middle Ages (Dark Ages), the high middle Ages, and the late middle Ages. These periods are marked by the beginning of Emperor Constantine reign in or around the year 312, and supported the conversion from the traditional Roman pagan religions to Christianity. The fall of the Western Empire and Islamic Expansion is believed to have contributed to the fall of the medieval period. During this period, Europe had drastic changes in authority. There was constant conflict between church and state. Church was very important and its existence bought about a lot of rules and laws that the people had to