If your talking accent Egypt then women have some strict rights. They have to stay home to take care of the house and the children. Thats all i know.
To create a balance of power, those were all if the ideas of the groups.
Ex.
NATO,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, keyword, treaty. It was all alliance between North America and other European countries.
Vienna wanted the balance of power during the wars.
So was the triple alliance and entente.
The catholic church wanted to share power with the emperor, so the coronation was an occasion to say in a very public way that the right to make a person king was in the hand of the church, thus making the church itself a very powerful entity who could in fact play a crucial role in the balance power of the period, as it was in many occasion.
it depends do you want to focus on military aspects for greek life or the arts and democracy personally i would go with Sparta as you can find a lot more information on greek battle doctrines than say the Athenian battles other than Artemesium strait or the battle of marathon
