Cultural Changes In The Classical Era

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The Classical Era (600 BCE – 600 CE) was an era defined by cultural innovation and an increased complexity of civilized life around the globe. Most “game changers” in this period consisted of cultural changes and alterations of how civilizations usually worked. One given change was the advent of the idea of citizenship, a concept where every person who was a “citizen” of a given city was given rights that non-citizens did not have access to. Another was the concept of voting and democracy, where every person had an individual voice, and major decisions were made by the people, rather than a single ruler. There was also the manifestation of large, long distance trade routes, brought on by advances in technology allowing larger distances to be