The main cause of the civil war and strife in Sri Lanka is their ethnic composition: Tamils in the north of the Island, who want independence and Sinhala in the South who want the country to remain united.
There is also a religious difference: the Tamils are predominantly Hindu and the Sinhalese are Buddhist.
Modern people are Homo sapiens.
Good question it depends on how dangerous and the people
A shogunate is most similar to a "military dictatorship" in terms of a relevant modern government, since each leader (Shogun) was a hereditary military dictator in Japan.
People came to Jesus, and he changed their life so they would want to help others.
Public school answer:
People tried to be more moral.