have been many wars and revolutions throughout history, so we can use some of them to illustrate the variety of social struggles in the world. At first, when the man was homeless and was constantly evolving about 30,000 years ago, he worked in small groups to survive the harsh climate and the environment, society could only survive, because only he was weak and helpless. The prehistoric man was a hunter and went on to develop the mural or rock, but often the lack of natural resources, was to be constantly moving in search of more fertile areas of rich biodiversity.
This specimen, which is considered one of the closest to the human species today is known as the Neanderthals, who lived in present-day Europe and parts of Asia Minor, coming to inhabit the peninsula Iberian and now France. It was in the latter two regions where it is thought that the Neanderthal was found with a distant relative, the Cro-Magnon, a physiologically more like actual human beings and with the dexterity more developed. The Cro-Magnon created and mineral pigments to paint their faces, made necklaces and better hunting tools, such as throwing spears.
These two species to be found, it is thought that they could not live together, but they faced each other for the weapons, because of the lack of natural resources for both you and your selfish human instinct to mark their territory. In this struggle of species, would be won by the Cro-Magnon, due to the further development of the brain and weapons, according to this theory as well studied, this species would be extinct Neanderthals which would be established throughout Europe, to bring forward a diversity of races and cultures.
This, though a very old example that there is only theory have happened, shows the instincts of the human instincts that have been imposed by force on other human beings or other living weaker than himself. Throughout history there are many examples of this struggle between oppressors and oppressed, between owners and non-owners, because ultimately, that's how you can qualify for both sides, as in all societies worldwide, there is always a division Such social, which is clearly defined the differences and inequalities of the various strata of society.
lived during ancient times usually under regimes or absolute monarchies, where the power was vested in the hands of one person of noble lineage. This nobility was the one who had access to knowledge, training in the art of war and agreed to the charges of government more representative. Examples can be seen in Egyptian culture, Phoenician, Mesopotamian and Greek, which were developing from the s. XXV BC. It was within these ancient kingdoms where it became more sharply stratified society where the division the work became more unequal and oppression became weapons of thing everyday.
This oppression is represented in the warring inhabitants of Assyria, located in Mesopotamia. These people like their neighboring contemporaries, was ruled by different gods, but which featured a main deity, in the case of the Assyrians was the god Assur, "king of the gods." Just as in the celestial world was a king of the gods, this idea was transferred to the earthly plane in which the king was seen as the mortal representative of the gods and therefore enjoyed a higher hierarchy among mortals, exercising power political, judicial, administrative and religious. This king was the intermediary priest of the gods with his people, so it was he who guided the society in all its aspects, and led in war.
Assyrians, performed marriage alliances with neighboring kingdoms, and was as mingled with the Kassites of Babylon in the s. VIII BC, and used the internal disorder of the city to combat and take control of this ancient city. With this acquisition, soon began an expansion process that transformed their domains in a great empire, which was developed under the reign of the dynasty of Sargon, conquered Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, Egypt, Babylon and southern Mesopotamia. Using terror as a weapon war, desolation and sowed panic among the conquered peoples, some of whose members were deported to other parts of the empire, to prevent rebellions, consequently resulting in the melting or disintegration of cultures. Thus
Assyrians envisaged by the civil strife, making bloody examples for those who think of revealing. Assyrians were the first to use siege equipment (rams, ladders and catapults), weapons of iron, metal armor, horses and chariots. With these powerful tools expanded their power by the current Middle East and parts of Egypt, taking advantage of its technological development, the amount of your army and bloody methods such as spike heads, wall fur bodies and skulls on the catapults to launch their enemies.
Empire was divided into provinces by governors appointed by the king, who were the tax collectors and soldiers recruited since the army was mainly cams, each city must provide a certain number of men. Similarly the lower classes of society, and conquered the deportees were used as labor to build the temples, palaces, ordinary houses, canals and other structures, thus being unable to rebel against their oppressive masters .
Therefore, at this time are not as common or civil strife are just easily repressed, rather what it is common dynastic murders are happening in the family, either by envy, lust for power and resentment. This is how some dynasties are no heir and dynasties come to power other relatives by marriage or impose their power by force, but the dynastic succession changes little the structure of social strata, only the higher hierarchies change command, but the workers and peasants are still subject to an order governed by the nobility.
Another way of succession of royal power, is the conquest of one people by another, clear example of this is the outcome of the story of the Assyrian Empire, which was broken and dominated by a Semitic people stronger than her cont5ra rebelled, that of the Chaldeans of Babylon, which, allied with the Medes of the Indo-European current plateau of Iran, attacked and destroyed in the year 612 BC the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. That was how the Babylonians built an empire like the Assyrian, and also dedicated to territorial expansion and conquest of Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Phoenicia, to subject areas to be its power and control.
was a warlike and conquering, like its predecessors, the Assyrians, but did not reach the degree of cruelty. Also deported the inhabitants of the conquered territories, in order to avoid rebellion, but unlike the Assyrians, the exiles could stay together, retaining their cultural identity.
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