A lot of customs we have today are evolved from ancient civilizations. Parts of civilization such as: government, values, social classes, and economics; to name a few. There are many parts that have come from joint ideas. We owe some of our traditions from ancient Western Civilizations.

Our government has come from ancient Romans. They had what was called the “Roman Republic.” The people who were considered citizens ran this. We also have government ways from the ancient Greeks, who had democracies in some of their poleis. Our modern government is a Republic Democracy. We have taken both governments and thrown them into one. We did not just create our whole system of government up, the Greeks and Romans did for us.

Our civilization contains social classes just as divided as the ancient civilizations. Our social classes have changed over the years though. We used to have classes such as ancient Egypt. Our classes used to involve religion being a top level, with wealthy and commons surrounding. Now because of recent situations, we have moved more toward a Greek class system. The Greeks contained levels of the upper class, merchants (which are similar to modern day low white collar, blue collar citizens), city poor, slaves, and women. Although slaves are no longer legal, and women are now apart of the other classes, we still have a system quite similar.

Our outlook on the world is that we are superior. We look at every other culture and think they are poor or just strange. Because of this we try to force our ways on others. This is quite like the Romans. They had a huge empire, of countries that they converted to Christianity. So like we try and convert others to our beliefs and government the Romans did the same.