Power structures throughout history

Clans and Tribes

Clans where groups of people of same ancestry or cousins. They mostly married among themselves. Cousins married cousins.  They basically shared kinship bonds.

Elders where respected in a sense that they had a better knowledge or experience in life than the younger members.  In some cases, clans where politically united by leaders such as Matriarchs, Patriarchs, Chiefs.....

Good examples are history of the Irish, Scottish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese....

Tribes had a more geographical, economic, political unity.  Nations rose from tribes.

SUPERSTITION: a belief or way of behaving that is based on fear of the unknown and faith in magic or luck : a belief that certain events or things will bring good or bad luck.

Empires

When a King was strong enough to subdue other nations, he then called himself an Emperor. 

The will of people

“The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television.”
~ Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.

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