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Social: ancient civilizations were very hierarchical, organized in castes. Social mobility was very difficult, this means that if a person was born poor, it was very unlikely for this person to become wealthy later in life.
Political: most ancient civilizations were monarchies, or dictatorships. Republics were essentially non-existant. That is to say that they were ruled by a single powerful man like a pharaoh, or a few people, who had no almost no limits to their power, and who were not elected by the people. Power was instead, hereditary.
Economic: all of these civilizations had an economy that was based on agriculture, because agriculture was the activity that allowed civilization to emerge in first place. The most valauble resource was land, and land was often monopolized by a few powerful individuals, the same people who had political power.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the American economy as one based on agriculture whereby farming agricultural produce formed the mainstay of the economy. The invention of the Gin for instance transformed the states agricultural landscape and led to development of an economy based on agriculture
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In the 1980's and the 1990's the manufacturing industry was the reason for the American economy was declining. The business owners of large cooperation were sending their work and opening companies in other countries. This was due to cheap labor that other countries were willing to pay the workers.
