Charlotte Clarke

 Ancient Egypt can be seen as a cradle for gender equality as ancient Eqyptian women were legally equal to their male counterparts for over 1000 years. Furthermore this equality was not dictated by their marital status. Women in Ancient Egypt could work, own property, go to court, serve on a jury and much more within their private lives such as choose their partner freely, have detailed prenuptial agreements as a means of financial protection in marriage as well as divorce for any reason they pleased. This was possible because marriage in Ancient Egypt was not linked to religion but it was more so a social construct. Despite the equality many 19th century western civilizations would have envied women in Ancient Egypt were not allowed to study medicine until the arrival of Agnocide after which female doctors became highly regarded. Despite the legal and professional equality afforded to women, the upper classes of Ancient Egypt remained predominantly male.  Moving to Ancient Ro...

Democracy can best be described as a government system that was elected for by either the whole population or eligible members of the nation of which the governing system would have responsibility for. Looking closer at the nuances of democracy it is suggested that there are 3 types, the first of which being a consensus democracy which is where a cabinet is elected via the legislature with limited to no reference of political parties. Consensus democracy is mainly in place in countries such as Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Lebanon and Iraq. In these countries consensus is a particularly important aspect of political culture as they aim to prevent the domination of a one cultural or logistic group. The second type of democracy is constitutional democracy where politics is governed by the constitution meaning that the majority and their authority is limited legally and institutionally therefore constitutional democracy respects the rights more so of the individual and m...