There are many different civilizations that developed throughout the Neolithic period to 1500 CE. Three specific ones are Roman empire, the Inca empire, and even ancient Egypt. Each of these civilizations had emerged with different systems of government and culture. Though that
is how they all came about they all had common goals of organizing themselves into complex societies the cultivate their survival and growth. While these vast civilizations were around the world there were many things that played into their ability to survive. One of those factors being the environment in which they lived. The Inca Empire was built in the Andes mountains where the rough environment caused for complex agriculture and irrigation systems to be developed to sustain the population of their numbers. While the advancements in city roads and the irrigation systems were needed it also provided the
organizational benefits needed to the increase in food production, transport of goods, trading, and
communications between the citizens.
Though environment played a factor there were other factors such as class and gender that played into structural development and organization. Within the Roman empire there was a strict class structure that had slaves and servants at the bottom, serving those of high class above them, and an emperor at the top. There was also gender roles that were strictly defined with the men in society being able to hold positions of power while the women were not. The differences of these structures had a significate effect on the states and empires during the time between 500 BCE and 1500 CE, as this was the way to determine whom had access to power and resources and who did not. In ancient Egypt, pharaohs established a centralized state which allowed for the construction of the monumental architecture like the pyramids and the temples of worship for the
gods that they prayed to. The development of a complex bureaucracy, legal system, and that of