Social media was supposed to change the world—it did, but likely not in the direction we imagined. Every day we're wading through fake news, lying leaders, and ghosting. Who to believe? What is real? How can we
Social hierarchy also had in impact on toilet habits. What’s clear is that humans in all time periods have used a variety of natural tools and materials to clean themselves. In very ancient times, wiping with stones and other natural materials and rinsing with water or snow was common. ...
In ancient Rome there was a law called Lex Sumptuaria that restrained public displays of wealth and curbed the purchasing of luxury goods. Similar sumptuary laws aimed at superficiality and excess have existed in ancient Greece, China, Japan and Britain. Perhaps it’s time to bring these laws ...
Sparta wasn’t a stranger tosocial inequality. The top class, the Spartiate, was comprised of native Spartans who served in the army and had full political and legal rights. Below them in the social hierarchy were the Perioeci - traders and blacksmiths who produced weapons and armor. ...
Feudalism was a social, economic, and military system in which there were a few people with power, widely known as lords in possession of the land where their vassals worked. It is known in history as a period where religion was prominent and in control, mainly in Europe....
What was the economy like in ancient Rome? What period of time preceded the Middle Ages? What formal government structure was created during the Middle Ages? What were the main social classes in the feudal system? What was the early medieval period? What did nobles do in the feudal system?
It also isn't something that has 'always existed' in the West either. The tradition dates back to ancient Greece and Rome; before that, like elsewhere in the world, successful, powerful men often had multiple women. More than one wife did not use to be verboten -- or uncommon. ...
You realize that the V.U.C.A situations already existed and you have already been fighting them. V.U.C.A. has technically always been here, it is just wearing new clothes and could be blamed on a new enemy. Tools and attributes such as agility, responsiveness, collaboration, adaptation,...
when Whitten courted the press even to the extent of having journalists act in crowd scenes and was rewarded with a steady stream of mentions in newspapers throughout the production period. A very different dynamic of secrecy existed around the set ofWilly Reillyand FCOI in general. This is ...
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, appren...