Every society is unlike any other society. Most of them consider their particular way of life to be superior to their neighbors or predecessors. In some cases t

Every society is unlike any other society. Most of them consider their particular way of life to be superior to their neighbors or predecessors. In some cases they have a very good case for thinking so, too: they are a vast empire, scientifically advanced, culturally sophisticated, prosperous to a level unheard of before - for example, the Islamic world in the middle ages, or the Roman empire.