Chapter Three Continuation: The Erosion of Equality

In this section of the book they talked about the hierarchies.  Something that the book talked about a lot was about there civilization. One thing that really got my attention about them was that at the bottom of the social hierarchies there were slaves. Another thing that they told us was that the practice of slavery in ancient times varied considerably from place to place. In Egypt and the Indus Valley civilizations initially had far fewer slaves than did Mesopotamia.  That was highly militarized. Another thing that the book talked about and got my attention was when they talked about the hierarchies gender. This section told us that the women were engaged in spinning, weaving, and making pots.  That got my attention because by reading this it made me think that women back then and the women now are so different from each other. We are so different because now we are more out there and back then we weren't.