Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia's social structure was important to them because it established the rights and authorities for each class. Their social structure consisted of five classes: the King, Priests, Scribes, Merchants and Artisans, Commoners and Slaves. Today in America, the social structure is quite different. There's general equality but, some people, such as the President, have more authority over commoners. Also, our government doesn't consist of having a king, so the power is equally distributed to the three branches of government: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branch. Making it more justified than Mesopotamia's social structure. The people of Iraq had an underwhelming amount of say in their country's government while Saddam Hussein was in power. Under his leadership, the country has not been able to achieve its full potential. This is shown in social structure because with the leadership of Hussein it developed a whirlwind of social injustice because of his dictatorship. This made the rest of the people of Iraq feel as if they were never as good as him. Another divider in Iraq society is between the urban and the rural population. In rural areas, people still retain their extended family and tribal connections. Recent economic hardships, as well as government encouragement of tribal organizations, have made extended kin ties even more prominent than in the past, in Mesopotamia. This divides the urban and rural because they have different views.
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