Theocracy

In The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter the town was ruled by a theocracy and everyone was expected to believe the same thing and have no opinions of their own. All their rules were based off the religion they practiced. You had to follow the bible and everything it stood for. The laws were very strict and had severe punishments…

Part B: A Compare and Contrast of the Religious Values in Ancient Egypt and China Religion has played a very significant role in the way that civilizations over time have operated. Encompassing more than just an imposing autonomous moral compass, having specific and certain beliefs have managed to perpetuate a variety of cultural contexts for thousands of years throughout countless civilizations. Especially for ancient civilizations, religion marked a wide array of cultural attributes, ranging…

Salem had a theocracy and since religious men ran the government it gave women such as Abigail and Mrs. Putnam power.This meant that any attempt to question, obstruct, or otherwise resist any of the government's actions, no matter how ludicrous, destructive, or ill-informed…

In his historical novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the immense struggles and sorrows of a young woman, Hester Prynne, during her life as a social exile from 17th century Boston’s rigid Puritanical theocracy. Despite the perpetual discrimination that Hester’s receives from the Puritans as a result of her adulterous sins, Hawthorne seemingly sympathizes with Hester throughout the course of the story by intentionally elucidating a number of hypocrisies and shortcomings that…

As the Puritans spent more time in the new world, John Winthrop’s vision for a religious ‘City on a Hill’ transformed into a society with less religious fervor because problems with the natives and a desire for more secular goods and possessions made it hard and not popular for the Pilgrims to actively practice their religion. From the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop explicitly states the intentions for the colony to be a religious haven for Puritans when he says that…

New England colonies organized their society based on theocracy, which ensured their values and ideas had a significant impact on the economic, political and social development during the 1630s through the 1660s. The Puritans worked hard to prioritize the economic development of New England since their belief was that they were a model for humankind favored by God to succeed. Economic activity of the region, was secondary under the focus of religious concerns. Wealthy merchants made up the…

What the Native American Governments might have become if the Europeans never interfered. In the 1400’s the Aztecs started to quickly expand and making the conquered vassals. However, the Spanish would quickly conquer them using more advanced weapons, and the diseases brought over from Europe would plague the natives destroying society so. So then, what would’ve happened, if Europeans never sailed across the Atlantic or never existed? It is reasonable to assume that given time they might have…

Governments are the sole things that will make a country run smooth. When we put a society ruled by a monarchy and a society run by a dictatorship, we can clearly see the similarities and differences that define these two governments. In an absolute monarchy, the country is ruled by a family that will make all of the laws for the people, but in a dictatorship, there is only one singular person that decides the laws for the country. For both of these countries, this means that the people will…

Genocides are an unforgettable part of a country’s history and unfortunately the universe has a bad name for repeating it. In history, there have been many genocides, some worse than the others. However, a couple have hit the bullseye, when it comes to being the worst genocides known to man. The Holocaust, mainly along with the Armenian genocide has caught the attention of people all over the world for various reasons. The author of “The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story”, Diane Ackerman captured…

writing system, they diverged in terms of rituals revolving death and afterlife. Polytheism is the belief in multiple gods and/or goddesses. Egypt was one of the many civilizations that practiced polytheism. The Egyptian government was based upon theocracy which demanded polytheism to every Egyptian citizen. Their belief system played a vital role in their society, each god representing a different aspect of their daily life. Like for example, Isis the goddess of protection and marriage was…