3. Most Effective Way For a Ruler to Maintain Order

I think that the most effective way for a ruler to maintain order is for the ruler himself to set a good example. By doing this the people will have no reason not follow the ruler. If the ruler would disobey the law, the people of the city wouldn't follow them either. I think that this is the simplest method but not always the easiest. Another method that may have worked would be to have laws. Not just to have laws but to have punishments for disobeying the laws and the same punishment to everyone not just according to the social pyramid.

2. Responding to Jared Diamonds Thesis

I agree with Jared Diamonds thesis that technology in the modern world is based on geographical luck. Jared Diamond believes that the answer to Yali's question of why do white people bring so much "cargo" but black poeple have no "cargo". New Guineans view cargo as material goods and evidence of white man power. By agreeing with Diamond i think that since Eurasia and the Middle East had livestock and different crops they developed all this technology because they didnt starve and were fully nutriotioned. The reason that they had all these crops and technology is not because of any psychological difference but because of geographical luck. In my opinion if the New Guineans would be provided with the same resources that the Euroasians were provided with then the New Guineans would make more out of it. The reason why we have cars and computers and the reason why some New Guineans are still hunters is all based on luck of where they ended up.