Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "How to Build a Civilization (Part 2) - Culture" video.

That rule isn't quite so universal. More accurately it needs to keep the keys to power up. In many instances the bottom will be a key to power, but in ages like when the chariot dominated bronze age warfare, they were so disconnected they largely had no part in any of it. They were repressed by everyone and everything. This made countries rise and fall in the same areas incredibly common, but since it had little to no effect on the living standards of the people (that is to say... barely any at all no matter who) it doesn't work. The class structure can't be too top heavy while the bottom can actually do something. If they just can't do anything regardless no matter what, they might as well not even be in the system at all and contribute nothing to whether or not it exists.
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@SPCv4 No, there were peasant revolts that occurred, but not peasant revolutions. The difference is success for the most part, as well as motive. Not to mention, in 46 BC, the peasants were still largely armed and represented in the Roman senate, meaning that the bottom was indeed a key to power. However, that's not always the case, as in the example I listed above. The iron age was very different from the bronze age, in that you just needed a lot of men in order to do anything militarily, and it was pretty easy to equip people, which wasn't the case with the bronze age.
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