Have societies from 3000BC to 1500AD had any impact on modern-day government, economics, religious beliefs?

Question

And other cultural practices?

Answer 1

umm, the short answer is yes.

the long answer is western society has borrowed a tremendous amount from Rome and Greece. Art, politics, logic, reason, life style all have their roots in Rome and Greece.

And, to not be ethnocentric, China saw Confucious during the period.

And christians saw Christ and the growth of christianity during this period.

Answer 2

If one is to take a closer look at 3000BC the first organized government would be that of acient Egypt, then Mesopotamia (acient countries of Asia), the Chinese, ancient India, eventually the Greeks, followed by the Romans, which eventually filtered to the modern world today.

Each economy within the periods mentioned was drastically different. These were solely based on culture, the influence of religion and most and foremost the rulership of the day which was mainly Royality.

Ironically, the societies during this period in history basically believed in multi gods. Each demi-god had their own worship structure within the wider spectrum of gods. So, people had an understanding of god not as a single entinity, but rather one of many aspects and functions.

I hope this answer help to clarify your question. By the way... Every religion today borrowed from some source of yester-year. Therefore, the Christian religion and other major religions had their origins from the old pagan religions.

Answer 3

Too many to mention, but the most obvious would be the much vaunted and defiled concept of 'Democracy'. This derives from the Greek meaning Demos - the people, and kratia - governance. This is supposed to mean that all organisation is by, and for, the people. Of course we all know that this ideal is rarely, if ever, met.

Otherwise, religion as practised in most of the western world derives ( including so-called 'Christianity' ) from the Osirian cult of ancient Egypt. For the Oriental part most of the wisdom, for example Lao Tzu, the father of taoism, Gautama Siddartha, the founder of Buddhism, originate a little later than your bracketed time period, but they take their lead from much older disciplines.

In what is now India, the Vedas were 'handed' to the Rishis and we have no idea how extraordinarily ancient the wisdom contained therein truly is, but the first written versions fall within your time bracket.

The economics that is practised worldwide today is a direct descendant of the fiscal practises of the ancient Sumerians, who originated their Mesopotamian in the 3rd century bc

And so on, and so on.

There is nothing new under the sun sayeth the Preacher. :-)