History according to me

Power, money, sex, control of others and religion
then you have made the world's history books
nothing more nothing less

take the Egyptians - power of pharaoh
golden tombs - marrying sisters and brothers
slaves or freemen toiling for years to build
monumentos monuments
oh and the pharaoh was the god

want to talk about the Greeks
apart from 10 years of democracy
it was city state versus city state - slaves -
sex - the women did not have a lot of power
(yes there are exceptions)
control of others and the Gods were doing
their own thing mimicking the citizens
of the polis

The Romans had power, had money,
devised a thing about the females should
not be free - hence the Roman family structure
slaves, of course,  control the  gods and then
came the belief from the East about
only one God....

The Holy Roman Empire and before that
the Celts - the Picts  - the Vikings
again why did they go and plunder
Money - Power - needs of the tribes -
add slave and use of women for sex
plus the beginning of the Catholic faith
ending during the Napoleonic Wars

Let's not forget Persia and the Asian Steppes
as well as closed China -
Tribes moves or get closed in - powers
hungry - insurgency we need food - money
oh and slaves to do do some work,
if not slaves - then women,
different gods but still used for the powerhungry

Tribal wars in Africa and in the Americas
needing feed for the people - money -
power - sex -and slaves and religions that follow the kings
or sometimes the kings (and queens on rare occasions)
are the gods themselves

Moving happily along up the history's path
to more modern "civilized" times
The Islamic world of yesteryear
anything different than power, money,
sex, and control especially over the minds

Japan with its shogunate for about 700 years
of power in one man almost godlike
dictatorship  - land belonging to the emperor
 - slaves ( peasants)- sex scandals (geishas)
control of their own - piracy of undesirables
tolerated to make life difficult for China and Korea

Let's see - well Russia - serfs -czars-
Catherina - up until the last emperor
power money sex control religious
need I mention scandals galore

What about the Papacy - a state within a state
murder and mayhem - selling of cardinalships
collection of tithes - control of the minds
and bodies of clerics and nuns - power
over  vast lands and yet so small a state

The renaissance - let's see any thing but
power, sex, money, control and curiosity
about the world and how it is screwed together
however it is done with Medici money
power murder and sex stories plus religion

The reformation - power over minds
Calvin - money non olet - therefore the Swiss
seriousness and banking beginnings
is about power, money, sex due to control
of the women's role - a belief

The British and the Dutch and the French
empires of the 15-19 centuries - same old story
with regional variations of money or lack thereof
power, sex and control - sometimes
pretending the religious wars to be something holy
for instance Napoleon who started out as a corporal
and ended as crowning himself as emperor

The Russian version of fascism - communism
the Italian ditto with the Spanish Francoism
and then of course the archetype of dictatorship
Hitlerism all these after the first World war
was the epitome of power and control
leading to the second world war and killing
millions and millions of Jews and others
just for control and power and a belief system
of superiority and hate of otherness.

Leading to the US of Trumpism whereby
in a democracy you can have fascism growing
slowly but truly because of the people's
need for money, power, sex and mind control .