There are a number of challenges that nations faced during civilization. Such changes include, wars, lack of resources and lack of political unity. Undeniably, there are a number of differences and similarities between the civilization of different societies. For instance the civilization of Mesopotamia is very similar to the civilization of the Greek society in a way that they both lacked political unity. This paper is going to focus on the reasons, why the civilization of Greek lacked political unity as well as discuss the consequences of the political disunity to the general development of Greek. The paper will also look at the factors that promoted unity in the Greece society.
Lack of political unity during the Greek civilization was as a result of various factors that include excessive individual conceit, where everyone felt like they were more superior, hence their opinion should be taken into consideration more that that of others. There was also a lot of competition between people, thus no individual was ready to support another person politically. Lastly, Greek civilization lacked political unity because of the geographical nature of Greece that made it difficult to politically unity the people. The land tenure of the region consisted of mountains and other natural features such as the Islands and gulfs that made the Greeks to form small cities that were self governed, that later on grew and became nations on their own. Even though the developed independent city states had a lot of similarities, they had also developed different customs and this made it impossible for Greek to unite politically.
Political unity is a very important factor that boosts the development of any country. Lack of political unity in the Greek society had a number of consequences to the general development of the society. Growth and development of Greece as a whole was paralyzed because of lack political unity. The independent city states could not unite and agree on any form of development. Each city state chose to exist on its own, which made it difficult to not only circulate the required resources for growth and development, but also made it impossible for interactions and sharing of ideas. The economy of Greek deteriorated because of limited trade interactions between the independent city states.
Nonetheless, Greece, had other factors that greatly contributed towards the homogeneity of the Greek society. Such factors were their common language, beliefs and customs. However much the mountains divided the region, the Greece people always found some common grounds to unite. They are believed to have had very strong customs and beliefs that for a long time fostered their homogeneity.
In conclusion, it is evident that like the Mesopotamia civilization, Greek civilization also lacked political unity due to its geographical terrain, individual narcissism, as well as, obvious competition between people from different city states. It is also clear that lack of political unity paralyzed the general development of Greece as a whole. However, various factors such as language, common beliefs and customs among the Greeks, fostered homogeneity.
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