Rarlj Book

Rarlj
Carl Valds
Valdes, Carl Thursday, June 5, 2014 9:57:20 AM Pacic Daylight Time 70:56:81:b0:06:d3
This is the image depicts the setting where Rarlj will settle, grow, and
thrive.
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Introduction
Introduction
I can see the pine trees covered in
snow all over the land like grass in your
front yard coming out of the ground.
There also is a very strong smell of pine.
Also there are a small amount of reeds
starting to poke out of the snow like dai-
sies coming out of the dirt during spring.
As I look around I start to hear the
sound of an avalanche from far away as
well as the sound of crickets from a
nearby bush. I also hear the sound of
rapid rushing water through a nearby river
and the sharp sound of the wind howling
like a hungry wolf. While I start to walk
around to get a better view, I felt the blis-
tering pain of the cold ground that is cov-
ered in snow and sharp rocks. I also start
to taste blood coming from my lip be-
cause its so chapped.
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You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an
environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.-Deepak
Chopra
CHAPTER 1
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Modifications
SECTION 1
Part I - Analysis of the Problem
The first step in building a successful
civilization is to secure basic human
needs such as food and water.Due to its
geography, the major challenges the civili-
zation of Rarlj faces in achieving a ba-
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Human Changes to the Land
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sic food and water supply include the fol-
lowing:
1. There are many problems with food in
the mountains. The first problem is that
the air is too thin so that we cant grow
any sort of wheat or plants to make
bread. Even if we tried to plant something
the wind would just blow the plants away
and there isnt enough good dirt or soil
in the area. Like Frey remarks that even
the Mayans had trouble farming in the
mountains, valleys, and plains because the
area was all rocky. Eventually the plants
would just get flooded out when the
snow melts. Even if we tried to hunt near
our area there would not be many ani-
mals because not that many animals can
survive this high up in the mountains. Also
if there even were animals near us we
would have to worry about predators
2. Another challenge of having to survive
in the mountains is that the water sup-
ply could get seriously frozen if it gets
too cold. Then we would have to thaw
it out which would be very hard given
the wind and cold climate. Another chal-
lenge is that if the water washed away
down the hill, we would have to wait un-
til it snowed again. Also if it wasnt fro-
zen, but just in a river or another body
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of water, we would have to somehow
clear the snow of bugs, animal drop-
pings, and diseases. If we didnt, it
would be dangerous if we just left it
alone unclean. We would also have to
melt the water in order to drink it.
Part II - Proposed Solutions
In order for our civilization to sur-
vive we will have to modify the land so
that we can obtain the necessary re-
courses. To fix our food problem, we need
to advance our weapons somehow by possi-
bly being able to shoot or sling something
like a rock or something so that we will
be able to hit our targets from a distance.
Doing this will enable us to not lose a
rare chance at meat by scaring our prey
away. We will also have to create fire with-
out extinguishing it, so that we can cook
our meat and boil water. Another thing
that might help us in farming is that like
Frey said is that the Greeks had to deal
with tall mountains so they created man
made earth like platforms or terraces to
create flat land to farm. Something that
will help us with our water problem is that
we have to something along the lines of
what Frey said about the Mesopotamians,
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which we have to make a dam like struc-
ture to block rivers and force the water to
a pool that they created. Another thing we
have to do is once we secure our water we
have to create a wall or fence around it
and then put a roof over it so that no ani-
mals can drink from it and so that snow
does not get in our water and pollute it.
We also have to watch our water supply
and check the perimeter so that no under-
ground animals like moles or ground
hogs to crawl into our water supply area.
We also dont want anthills and beehives
to form near our water supply area either
because it could either and poison it or
harm our people that are just getting wa-
ter.
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CHAPTER 2
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Law & Government
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous ser-
vant and a fearful master.-George Washington
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SECTION 1
Part I - Lessons on Democracy
Many civilizations had the trouble of
going through the different kinds of gov-
ernment. But some mistakes that hap-
pened during these changes of govern-
ment would be mistakes that we dont
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Maintaning Civil Order
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want to make again. An example of a fail-
ure is the ones that ancient Athenss made
with their direct democracy. The some mis-
takes were that since they had a direct de-
mocracy they had to meet every ten days.
Instead we could meet about every 4-5
weeks at most. Also we could use the only
citizens may vote because we dont want
foreigners changing how our civilization
works. We also could use their assembly
of 6,000 so we get a good estimate of
what the citizens of Rarlj want. Like what
Frey remarks on page 161 The names of
all citizens 30 years of age or older were
collected, and 500 of those names were
chosen we should use this because we
would need to have a control group to de-
cide between good laws and bad laws.
Now moving onto Sparta what we might
want to use is their council of elders, but
maybe without the two kings so we can
have our control group have experience of
what has gone right and what has gone
wrong. Also our assembly of would still
only vote yes or no for the laws. But some-
thing we might not want to use is that
their assembly had to be people with expe-
rience in the army our assembly wont
have to they would just have to be adults
30 or older.
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Now onto Rome, some things we might
want to use from Romes democracy is the
twelve tables. We would want to use the
twelve tables because we would want our
laws to be shown but maybe instead of a
table we might want to post them on a
wall. Another thing that we should use are
tribunes because we want people to repre-
sent both the rich and the poor. These trib-
unes would probably go to join our coun-
cil of elders. Our council would also be
able to veto laws incase they were to out-
rages or only benefited one party and not
the other. And that is what we would use
from these three governments to add to
our own.
Part II - Code of Law
But once we have messed around with
our government we must know how to
keep our civilization in line. We must
keep these threats out of our society to
maintain order. If we do not theft would
breakout, criminals would go on massive
crime streaks, riots would erupt in the
streets, we would need to create rules so
these catastrophes from happening. But
some serious threats would be the possibil-
ity of rioters, the chance of being in-
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vaded. We would be able to stop this if we
created a code of laws. Our code of laws
would be
If you mean to murder someone you
will die the same way that they murdered
If caught in the act of theft you must re-
turn the item to the previous owner and
spend the amount of time in jail equal to
the value of the item
If you are caught breaking the rules you
must face public punishment be being
made an example.
If you are caught vandalizing you must
be mocked and laughed at in public.
If you harm the king/possessions of the
king you will be put to death. These laws
would help keep our civilization from be-
coming a city of crime and metropolis of
failures
We can do so if we follow similar rules to
Hammurabis Code.
Part III - Political Leadership Les-
sons from Julius Caesar
Something important that can be
learned from Julius Caesar being the
leader of Rome is that if you want your
civilization to function, you need citizens
that actually want to live there.The way to
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keep citizens in your civilization is to
keep them happy, and thats exactly what
Julius Caesar did. There are many reason
why you should keep your civilization
happy. One of the reasons is that if your
civiliza-
tion is
happy,
they wont
riot. Riots
cause a
lot of
problems,
one being
that they
might not listen to their leader, another
might be that they start defacing or de-
stroying important property causing lots
of damage thus causing you to spend lots
of money. Another thing is if you keep the
civilians happy, they will be more grateful
to live in your civilization and not some-
one else's. Doing this will also give the
leader respect causing the citizens to trust
your decisions more. To keep the people
happy, he did things for the plebeians such
as making everyone under the control of
Rome an official citizen. He halted the ex-
tensive use of slavery in rural areas and
provided jobs for poor people by passing
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a measure requiring that a third of the
ranch laborers be Roman citizens. This is
another thing that Julius Caesar did to en-
sure the happiness of Rome. But some
things Julius did were not as appreciated,
like wearing royal purple and red san-
dals. But in all, Caesar was always look-
ing out and making sure the civilization
of Rome was happy. Many things can be
learned from Julius Caesars ruling Rome,
but one key thing that every civilization
should know is that they have to keep
their citizens happy.
Part IV - Political Leadership of
Lessons Augustus Caesar
Augustus Caesar could have been one
of the best leaders Rome ever had. But
lets start with the beginning of Caesar.
When Augustus was young he lost his fa-
ther at a very young age and then when
he was older he lost his adopted father Ju-
lius Caesar. But since he was the only heir
to Julius Caesar he was the one that be-
came leader of Rome. During his rein as
leader Augustus did not want to be called
leader he wanted to be called First Citi-
zen because he did not want to look like
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a spoiled leader. He did this so that the
people of Rome could feel like they were
more connected to him. matters. Because
Romans feared the power of king, he
never asked for that title. Instead, he re-
ferred to himself as First Citizen. He
also ate common food and didnt wear
the royal robes and red sandals so he
could look like the common people. But
Augustus wasn't all that confident. He had
people form a Praetorian of 9 special
units made up of 500-1,000 each. As it
says on page 1 paragraph 3 it says that
these special units were solely responsible
for protecting him. To show the prosperity
of his reign, Augustus began a program to
make Rome safer and more beautiful. This
program included restoring 82 temples
and building new statues, theaters,
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and a large outdoor arena, or forum. He
also built a new Pantheon to serve all the
gods. He also did stuff to improve the life
of everyone within the Roman empire.
Some things that Rarlj can learn is to
again make sure that the civilization is
happy and to make sure that the citizens
respect their leaders.
Part V Lessons from the Decline of
the Western Roman Empire
The main reason that the ancient Ro-
man empire fell was because of the many
failures the Nero caused. But one of the
most important failures that thier leader
caused was the amount of unemployment.
Since Nero got rid of the max amount of
slaves one person can own the farmers
that were rich were able to have mass
amounts of slaves. A farmer who had to
pay workmen (non-slaves) could not pro-
duce goods as cheaply as the wealthy
landowners. (Political Leadership of Cae-
sar Augustus) This caused many of them
to go out of business leaving all of their
workers unemployed. Since this happened
more and more business went out of busi-
ness causing the amount of unemployment
to go through the roof. But we wont allow
this to happen to Rarlj.
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We will prevent this by limiting the
amount of slaves that a business can own
depending on how big the business is.
We will also make sure that we watch the
amount of unemployment incase it spikes
up and check for the reason why it hap-
pened. We will also make sure that if
there are unemployed people will try to
have small business made by the govern-
ment to do simple tasks and get paid lit-
tle but enough to survive. These are some
of the things that we will do to prevent
large amounts of unemployment.
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What does a belief system do for a civilization. A belief system lets people
within a civilization have something to hope for or believe in when times get
tough or when they feel depressed. A belief system also allows people to
CHAPTER 3
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Belief Systems
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.-Swami Vivekananada
SECTION 1
What does a belief system do for a
civilization A belief system lets people
within a civilization have something to
hope for or believe in when times get
tough or when they feel depressed. A be-
lief system also allows people to think
and distinguish right from wrong depend-
ing on what they believe. It also helps
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau
Impact of Belief Systems
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with keeping peace within a society be-
cause if you have people believing that re-
specting elders is good than people that
believe in that religion will start helping
older people because thats what they be-
lieve is right. And thats what I think a re-
ligion does for a civilization.
In order to further understand the im-
portance of a belief system on society,
and their influence on the followers, ac-
knowledge the the moral dilemma below.
Judy is a twelve-year-old girl. Her
mother promised her that she could go to
a special rock concert coming to their
town if she saved up her baby-sitting
money to buy a ticket to the concert. She
managed to save up the fifteen dollars
the ticket cost plus another five dollars.
But then her mother changed her mind
and told Judy that she had to spend the
money on new clothes for school. Judy
was disappointed and decided to go to
the concert anyway. She bought a ticket
and told her mother that she had only
been able to save five dollars. That Satur-
day she went to the performance and told
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her mother that she was spending the day
with a friend. A week passed without her
mother finding out. Judy then told her
older sister, Louise, that she had gone to
the performance and had lied to her
mother about it. Louise wonders whether
to tell their mother what Judy did.
A Buddhist would tell on Judy. They
would tell on her because if they didnt
they wouldnt be disobeying the eightfold
path. It would also be disobeying right
speech, and right action because they
would be lying and not doing the correct
thing.
A Confucianist would tell on Judy.
They would tell on her because they be-
lieve that it is not right to lie. To them it
is especially not right to keep something
secret from their parents.
A Hindu would tell on Judy. They
would tell on her because if they did it
would affect their karma positively. If
they didnt tell on Judy it would affect
there karma negatively. And most Hindus
want to have a positive life so they would
try to make sure that their next life
would be good.
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Impact of Belief Systems in Medieval
Europe
How did the Roman Catholic Church in-
fluence peoples beliefs and lives in Medie-
val Europe? They affected peoples lives be-
cause the church used god to explain
most national disasters. The church was
also more powerful the kings and queens
so they could be questioned. They also af-
fected people beliefs because the church
made them belief that they had to com-
plete at least 5 total sacraments. It also
affected peoples beliefs because since al-
most all people in medieval times were il-
literate they couldnt question the church
so they put paintings that would illustrate
what would happen if they didnt do what
the church said. They also made people be-
lieve that if they did what they what they
were told and didnt revolt they would go
to heaven.
Belief System of Rarlj
In an effort to create a successful civi-
lization, the people of Rarlj have estab-
lished tier own belief system. It shares
similar religious beliefs and teachings
with other world religions and helps the
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people of Rarlj live with strong moral
values. Here are some examples.
Rarlj citizens follow Rarljism. And
one belief they need to follow is Rajj.
What they do is that they must visit all
three city-state religious monuments (Aza-
ria, Juin, and Canarlj). This is like Hajj,
the fifth pillar of islam, to travel at least
one time in your life to a religious monu-
ment. They must visit these before they be-
come 23 years of age. They must do this
because it shows that they have dedication
to their gods and that they are willing to
do whatever task their gods tell them to
do. This also shows to their city-state lead-
ers that they are dedicated citizens and
that they respect their religion.
Another belief our citizens must fol-
low is Lecch. This belief is that on this
day (Wednesday) they must think about
the wrong doings that they had done dur-
ing the week and then try to fix it. This
will help our civilization by causing our
citizens to recognize their wrong doings,
This will in the end lower our crime rate
and allow or people to be more happy.
This is like the Jewish Sabbath Day like
when they rest and worship on the seventh
day.
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The third belief in our religion is that
our followers must respect all things. This
belief is called Mor. Our citizens must
constantly try and not harm any other hu-
man or animal and respect everything.
This belief is related to Confucianism be-
cause The goal of Confucianism was a
just and peaceful society. This will bene-
fit our society because this will make our
citizens want to be non-violent.
Sacred Space of Rarlj
My sacred space in my civilization fol-
lows the religion of Rarljism. This monu-
ment helps reinforce values by displaying
the sword of justice on the roof. That rein-
forces the way that we think about what
weve done and try and fix it. The statues
in the building show honor to the fallen
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soldiers of past generations. That shows
that we still respect the dead even though
they are no longer with us. This connects
to almost all religions because it is like a
church or temple or a place of worship.
This helps me to create a successful civili-
zation because it lets our people have
somewhere to confess to others about what
they have done wrong.

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CHAPTER 4
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Ideas
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A man may die, nations will rise and fall, but an idea lives
on. - JFK
SECTION 1
Advancing Ideas Within a Civilization
European society changed because peas-
ants thought they could become a lot
more than what they were, how the church
lost its power and how people decided to
conduct their own tests to prove their
theories. It changed because peasants
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer-Bruce Lee
The Power of Ideas
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thought that because there were a lot less
of them that they could demand more
money from their lords. It also caused
peasants to achieve more rights from their
lords. Another thing that happened was as
soon as the bubonic plague started people
started to loss faith in the church. Because
of this the church lost lots of its power. Af-
ter the church lost their power people
started to not believe in sacred text and
stopped blaming things on god. From this
people started conduction test and having
theories to try and figure out why certain
stuff happens. This is how I think Euro-
pean society changed because of the Hu-
manist mindset.
A humanist mindset would affect our gov-
ernment because it will change the way
our citizens are treated, the way our gov-
ernment makes our laws and what relig-
ions our citizens choose to believe. They
would probably change the laws to benefit
the people more than the government.
It will change our beliefs systems and re-
ligions because not everyone will believe
in it but it could positively effect our civi-
lization because people will strive to find
answers to the unknown.
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The Danger of New Ideas
How are new ideas dangerous. Well dur-
ing the Middle Ages people started having
these new ideas about how the Catholic
Church was becoming corrupt. People
started thinking this because the Church
said that their priests and other priority
figures were supposed to live in poverty
but instead they were living the good life
with all the money they were collecting.
Another mistake the church made was that
for example, priests, monks, and nuns
made vows, or solemn promises, not to
marry and have children, not to marry.
Yet they broke these vows..Another ques-
tionable thing that the church did was
that they kept rising the price of indul-
gences they were collecting. An indul-
gence was an exchange of items or prop-
erty for forgiveness of sins. Another cor-
rupt thing that the church did was that
they sold the positions of high ruling posi-
tions in the church to the highest bidder.
People like Martin Luther and Desiderius
Erasmus had differed from traditional
teachings because they wanted all the
greed aspect from the church to go away.
This threatened the church because it
made people question the way they be-
lieved the church worked. This also threat-
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ens the church because people like Luther
started their own church that didnt fol-
low those same rules. Another thing that
threatened that church was that Luther
said that people didnt need to have a
priest to have a connection with god he
said that everyone could become a priest.
The church used some ways to get rid of
luther. One thing that they tried to do was
that they tried to excommunicate him.
They also wanted to burn Luther at the
stake but they never did. They never did
because after he was excommunicated his
followers wanted to hide him so he didnt
die. But one thing the church did do was
they did burn all of his books and writ-
ings because they didnt want people to
continue to follow him. They did this by
moving him every so often so he could
still continue his teachings to everyone.
If our civilization had someone like Mar-
tin Luther give us ideas that would
change the way our civilization would
work (and would be beneficial) we would
accept them with open arms. We would ac-
cept their ideas because we will want to
try to appease to our citizens so they do
not revolt. We would also accept ideas if
it were to benefit a mass majority of our
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group. But there would be some excep-
tions. We will not except all ideas if they
either harm the civilization or change a
major part about how it runs. We would
only change something so major unless
the whole civilization votes to allow it. We
would also disagree with ideas that could
possibly affect our civilization or the envi-
ronment long term. Would would only
make a compromise if a mass majority of
citizens vote for or against a certain
thing that greatly affects a part of our
civilization that the high council doesn't
agree on. This strategy would help make a
successful civilization because (if done
correctly) you could appease to your citi-
zens and to you to all around benefit
your group.
Power of Individual Ideas
Giovanni da Verrazano was a great ex-
plorer dur-
ing the Ren-
aissance.
Giovanni
helped the
advance peo-
ples beliefs
because it
allowed the
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French to have their first claims to the
Americas. Giovanni would make an excel-
lent addition to our civilization because
his exploration skills could greatly im-
prove our knowledge of our continent.
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