studying the history of the school or institution of higher education, each student meets in different sources mention of the extraordinarily brutal rulers, manifested in achieving the heights of power and might of the methods that are incompatible with the concept of humanity.The extermination of entire peoples, penalty opponents and their treacherous murder, imprisonment in the dungeon of possible competitors, and other ways to strengthen the dictatorship were frequent in biblical times and the Middle Ages, and in the century, considered to be more enlightened.Despots and tyrants have always lived, differed only in the scale of the crimes and how they were committed.
Despots ancient
For drevneiudeysky King Herod the Great, who became famous before large-scale construction projects and the fight against hunger and commanded to destroy all the babies to protect their dictatorship against possible threats (Matthew).
despotism - is a form of government in which the will of the ruler is not limited to laws governing the lives of all the other members of society.Since the pursuit of justice is the nature of man, the establishment of one-man rule requires some effort and is accompanied by acts of violence, bearing the frank and symbolic.Only the use of mass terror is capable of some kind, sometimes for a long time to convince people thought about the futility of resistance.
There are other methods by which traditionally installed despotism.It is the creation of the illusion of the population of the divine origin and extraordinary abilities (personal qualities) ruler.To do this, for example, in ancient Egypt, the pharaohs, using the knowledge of the priests who were at the time "academic elite", were given the natural phenomena of the manifestation of his own supernatural power.
There is a perception of a special sophistication that distinguishes Oriental despotism.Totalitarianism Sumerian rulers, the kings of Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, of Mesopotamia, the ancient Chinese tradition laid the foundation, which followed the dictators of the following centuries.This law, which was to live a society were written, and the Code of Hammurabi became the prototype of modern legal norms.Compliance with them was a must for anyone violating severely punished, but an exception was the divine ruler.
Dark Ages
Ottoman Empire became the medieval state, which reached its climax the feudal despotism.This happened during the XIV-XVI centuries.
In Russia the same rules of the XVI century, a tyrant, Ivan IV, nicknamed the Terrible.He acted no less terrifying methods, strengthening the sole power, although the number of victims of his reign (about 3 thousand. Man executed for various faults, and just because of its objectionable) is significantly inferior to the "achievements" of contemporary European rulers.For example, during the night of Saint Bartholomew on the orders of Charles IX was put to death 30,000 Huguenots.In Britain, a third of Henry VIII was beheaded for vagrancy.
high price for progress?
interesting that despotism - it is such an era when the cost of enormous victims of society, driven by fear, makes a breakthrough in its development, sometimes revolutionary.Most of the population live in the days of "large fractures" extremely uncomfortable, but the results are sometimes spectacular, unless, of course, the transformation made in the right direction.Otherwise, the country has to spend a lot of effort to go back to the starting point of the impasse into which it has got unlucky dictator.
little about domestic tyrants
However, tyranny and despotism - the phenomenon is not always political, and they are found in the workforce, and families.Dictatorial tendencies inherent in some leaders, husbands, wives, and sometimes children.Despots arise when innate traits combined with appropriate education and are supported by a universal indulgence.And then the punishment awaits anyone who does something wrong, it would be desirable tyrant.
