Ordered Society Dbq Analysis

What makes an ordered society? Although many, many things contribute to this I'm going to discuss three different topics that I find to be the most important in shaping order in a society. The three I find most important are religion, government, and village and family life. These factors contribute greatly to the stability of order. The one I find to be the biggest contributor is religion, which helps shape the way people act and behave. Most religions are very structured and timely and precise and people can be very committed to them, therefor devoting much time to. Government is also a very important contributor, it shows how the people act toward one another, their justice system, the way they view things, etc. Government is not to be taken

lightly and should be very structured and honest. Government helps create order by establishing how efficiently and how correctly things get done. Lastly village and family life immensely contributes to the order in a society. Depending on the way families and villages act with each other greatly impacts the order in their living. What they do, say, act, feel toward, and do to one another contributes to how well things get done, how quickly, how long, the way they can efficiently and nicely communicate with each other in an ordered manor, ... the order of a society. Both China and India have a variety of ways in which they make up an ordered society, including the three I find most important religion, government, and family and village life.
The contribution of religion in the creation of an ordered society is gigantic. Most people have somewhat of a religion and tend to do right by it. In some religions there are many rules to obey, others easier going. So depending upon the religion of a society can greatly affect its interactions. In Aryan society they worshiped many gods such as the animal snake god, Varuna, and Indra god of war. The Aryans wanted to do right by their gods and please them and make them happy so that they would be gracious unto them. They brought sacrifices and prayed to them for help in areas such as their health or wellbeing. As you can see religion shaped their culture and greatly helped form order in their society. Order in a society is how it accomplishes, gets things done, the way it is run. How everything is arranged and put in order, like people’s positions or jobs or their daily rituals. Religion creates order in a society because the religion that is practiced is what the people abide by. Religion can have people get up early in the morning to pray to their god, spend hours on hours with their god or goddesses, or the choice or idea of what is right and what is wrong. Religion greatly impacts and influences order in a society.
Government is the next factor I will discuss of importance to the order in a society.

This contribution also heavily influences the order in a society, this is what the people see as right and wrong, laws to obey, elders to look up to, etc. Government is far from just the people in authority and laws to follow; it’s about socialization, trade, exchange, interactions with other countries, contradiction of what was thought to be right, justice, positions, jobs, skills, and so much more. In the 21st India there was a caste system in which created a “stable social order” (Document D). This system “dictated status and occupation” (Document D) and was not equal to all people but to only some of which are part of a higher class and social rank. There are many disadvantage for the ones who are on the lower end of the rank like less nutrition accessibility, lower education, and fewer relations or contacts to essential “social institutions” (Document D). This system of India is part of their government. It shows what they are like and how they want things to be and go according to. Their government is influencing their order by making things go a certain way. This government is making it where there are advantages for the high classes and not very many for the lower class. Making it almost impossible for someone to get themselves out of the lower class and move up into the higher class. There was also a system in Aryan society like this one but very different. This system also had

different classes of people but they based this upon “a person’s ability and interest” (World History, 2016, pg. 66) rather than social status. They had four parts to their social system, Brahmins (priests: mouth), Kshastriyas (warriors: arms), Vaisya (herders, merchants, farmers: thighs), and Sudras (laborers, servants: feet). So as we can see different governments have different ways of doing things. Some are a bit more prejudice so to speak and others are more about equality and basing off of facts rather than appearance. The way government is run and the people who are in charge create order in a society. It can choose the fate of what someone may be like, their job, pay, friends, spouse, etc. Government creates order by having people have different jobs and lifestyles and have some more fortunate than others. It is the way things get done and go according to. So the question of “Does government affect order in society?” deserves the answer of yes, it does affect order greatly in a society.
The last and final factor of contribution to order is family and village life.

This factor like the others is also of huge impact. This when it comes down to it is what really impacts the order in a society the most heavily. This outweighs the others who cannot be compared to family/village life. Family and village life is someone’s home life parents, spouse, children, siblings, outer family, friends, neighbors, etc. which is what holds everything together in a society. Family is the tie to order in society it keeps the families together which keeps neighbors together which keeps villages together which keeps everybody together. The discipline in a family creates rules, customs, and traditions which brings order. Confucius had taught of things on family and discipline and different relationships and their meaning. He taught on five relationships “unequal, except for friendships” (Document A). which was “a subject to his ruler, a child to his parents, a wife to her husband, and younger brothers to elder brothers”. He thought very highly of these relationships and that by people accepting their roles would live in peace and be doing their responsibility. By families following this teaching and others by Confucius they have order. They are following rules and customs and do it on a daily basis and try their best to live by it which has them doing things each day, things go accordingly which is

order.
In conclusion religion, government, and family and village life all greatly impact order in a society. They can all bring customs, traditions, orders, rules, ethics, and more which helps create order. Religion can have people do certain rituals, prayers, fasting, etc. Government can bring about certain rules or laws to obey and ways of dealing with things. Family/village life can bring certain traditions, holidays, foods, communication, cultural ties, etc. These all impact order in a society very much. From back then to now these contributions have greatly impacted the order that is created in a society and will continue to. They will forever be creating order in our families and life’s.