The international system resembles Thomas Hobbe's view of the state of nature in that "Stronger nations prey upon the weak." Hobbe's believed that the state of nature was anarchic and conflict prone whereby the strong would prey upon the weak. He would argue that this is what occurs in the international system today.
They believed that whatever they did or worked there was a patron god of that. This meant that if you became a student of something you also had to know what are the patron gods in order to appease them. If you were learning to be a farmer, you needed to know what kinds of sacrifices were necessary for gods of harvest or Nile or similar in order to get a better harvest.
The plantation owners; because they were rich and powerful.
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