In Hammurabi's Code document it gives laws about how to govern onself while cultivating land so it looks like most people made money in the country as peasants with the exception that when Babylon was first founded in about 1900 BC is was primarily a city-state with very little adjoining area for cultivation so initially the citizens probably made most of their money in the city.,
Walt Whitman supported the Mexican-American War. He justified his support of the war with the concept of manifest destiny. This was the idea that the USA was destined to stretch from coast to coast on the North American continent. Dominated by Anglo-Saxons, the USA had a mission to spread civilization and institutions across the American continent. Whitman believed that it was America's duty to rid Mexico off its misery, inefficiency, her burlesque against freedom and superstition.
Legalism influenced the Chinese society during its dynastic era because it prescribed harsh penalties for any minor crime. Legalism was a belief the ancient China people had that humans were able to do more wrong than right. Because they were only motivated by things that for were for self gain.
