Less democratic forms usually include economic means that are based on a command market system. Command markets are opposite of the free market systems and in a command system a government can choose what will be made and what sold and at what prices and this is usually useful for solving things like economic crises.
In 1492 Columbus landed on an island of the Bahamas, the first European to do so. His initial goal was to find a quicker route to Asia from Europe. He is credited with the discovery of the New World because his voyage started the era of European colonialism in the Americas
Divions existed between social classes, everyone had to change their way of living and they all had to follow the hammurabis code to live in a common surrounding. I think thats what it is, im just guessing.