Impact of Warfare, Religion, and Social Stratification on City-Building

Impact of Warfare, Religion, and fond Stratification on City-BuildingIn both ancient and contemporary kind-hearted societies, one fundament witness the pagan creations of warfare, religion, and genial stratification interacting to help oneself form and continue the existence of each other. In addition, these cultural factors constitute lent themselves to help produce, regulate, and justify specific technologies. These technologies may be either destructive or beneficial to human societies economically and/or environmentally, and can have a very wide range of function. Technologies can in turn influence warfare, religion, and social stratification so as to annex the importance of these aspects of culture in society. In this paper, I seek to look for the human relationships between warfare, religion, and social stratification, and their important influences on city- shape uping in ancient time and today.As early societies began to group together and form conglomeratio ns of people that at long last became towns and cities, they discovered a need for warfare in order to foster and expand their territories, resources, and populations. In the words of Ehrlich, it is important to remember that (c)onnecting genes for aggressionto the actions of belligerent governments is a bit of a stretch, just as would be connecting genes for conciliations to the deployment of linked Nations peacemakers (Ehrlich 260). Basically, Ehrlich wants us to realize that there are no war or peace genes, but that cultural micro- and macro-evolutionary conditions (that is, societal or environmental conditions) may drive a group of people to be either war-ridden or peaceful.With the development of warfare came the development of religion. A causative relationship is... ...a, especially slaves, would have been the people who would have physically labored to build the cities. In this way, social stratification played a major routine in the rise of ancient Greek cities. In conclusion, the cultural components of warfare, religion, and social stratification have not only interacted to help create and perpetuate each other, but they have also heavily influenced technologies such as city-building in ancient Greece. Though the emphasis on the different factors changes with evolving cultural and environmental climates, they are still present to some degree in Western culture today.Works CitedChant, Colin. Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology. London Routledge, 1999.Ehrlich, Paul. Human Natures. Washington, D.C. Island Press, 2000Southwick, Charles. Human Impacts on Planet Earth. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1996.