effective ruler

What is the most effective way for a ruler to maintain order?

I think that the most effective way for a ruler to maintain order is that they take advantage of the good and compensate for the evil tendencies and people. They have to keep an even balance between justice and mercy by taking advantages of the good things that people do, making harsh punishments, but also deciding what laws are important to your civilizations and be more lenient on the less important. There obviously has to be constrictions so that people are not tempted by their evil tendency but if there were only punishment, nobody is perfect and everybody would be punished.

Jered Diamond's thesis

I agree with Jered Diamond’s thesis because civilizations can go from being thriving communities while in the hunter gather period to being one of the least advanced. This is all because of the land and resources they were provided with. In the Middle East, they were one of the first places to control their agriculture, making it more predictable so that they would have enough food. They succeeded in making large sources of food and sell surpluses. The problem was that their climate didn’t provide the right habitat for the plants and they weren’t able to grow the agriculture that would provide the most. They fell behind the times while other civilizations were inventing and developing cities.