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Ancient Civilizations

...... It is an interesting commentary on nineteenth-century political philosophy that the starting point of so many theories was, of necessity, the Classical world of Greece and Rome. According to the present hypothesis, however, both of these great political developments of antiquity were not pristine but secondary formations which built on cultural foundations laid two thousand years and more before the rise of Greece. Furthermore, it would seem that the active commercial and military influences of the truly ancient pristine states, mediated through the earliest of the secondary states to appear in Asia Minor and the eastern Mediterranean littoral, were catalysts in the events of the northern and western Mediterranean (Lamberg-Karlovsky and Sabloff, 38-38).
This unified stratification of the Roman (and Greek) elements of sub-culture into an organized nation-state. Also, the early Roman society incorporated into its structural framework slave labor in agriculture, which came from peoples conquered by the Romans (16). Rome was successful in establishing itself as a Mediterranean hegemony (Harle, 24). It was able to do this by bringing together its skilled worker classes, and leaving its unskilled slave population to perform the backbreaking task of agriculture. The skilled labor was able to create the necessary technology