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Rich and powerful people were safe, whilst the poor and weak weren't.
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Cyrus the Great announced all slaves were free to go and gave people freedom of religion. These rules were written onto the Cyrus Cylinder, the birth of human rights.
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Human rights spread to the Roman Empire, where they established 'Natural law', the idea that people instinctively followed certain laws without guidance.
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A document put into writing which agreed the king and his government weren't above the law, and couldn't take away people's rights.
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An English constitutional document which gave people specific individual protections of their rights.
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America declared themselves independent from Britain, and the king agreed that all men are created equal.
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The French revolted for their own rights, taking the Roman concept of 'natural law' as 'natural rights', where every people was naturally entitled to have rights.
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Napoleon overthrew the French democracy and declared himself Emperor.
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European countries joined forces and defeated Napoleon. They drew up international agreements which broadly granted people rights across Europe.
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He led protests and insisted all people on Earth had rights, not just Europeans, who were invading and conquering India.
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Gandhi succeeds in his protesting, and Irwin agrees to a pact which released those who had been imprisoned during the movement.
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The UN was established and had the purpose of "[...] To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person."
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Under the supervision of Eleanor Roosevelt, the UN began discussions on a set of rights applicable to everyone.
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The UN finally agrees to and creates the declaration of human rights.