Is there anywhere besides Western Europe where a state was dedicated to freedom and equality in ancient time?
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by admin
The modern democratic state is always attributed to Western Europe and its history by books, professors, history, government, etc…I understand that the founding fathers of America come from Western Europe, so that is why. But, was there any other state, tribe, or nation that had a democratic system (rule by the people) in any other place without Western European influence?
There’s a lot of guff spoken about this idea of democracy.
Our modern representative, inclusive democracies owe nothing to Ancient Greece but the name. After the fall of the Roman Empire, and the rise of the Feudal system, limited governments emerged and they developed by the 19th century into the modern sort of democracy.
As for republics, well the Maya had a type of government in the Post-Classic period called a multepal, a sort of republic.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:42 am
There are a few historians that claim the founding fathers did not get their ideas of democracy and liberty from the Romans or Greeks, but instead from local Iroquois and other native american tribes.
It is also believed that Mesopotamia formed primitive democracies, and India is thought of possibly having a few republics as someone from the Indo-Greek kingdoms claimed neighboring countries were republics. Though we don’t know how democratic they were.
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February 15th, 2010 at 8:23 am
There’s a lot of guff spoken about this idea of democracy.
Our modern representative, inclusive democracies owe nothing to Ancient Greece but the name. After the fall of the Roman Empire, and the rise of the Feudal system, limited governments emerged and they developed by the 19th century into the modern sort of democracy.
As for republics, well the Maya had a type of government in the Post-Classic period called a multepal, a sort of republic.
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February 15th, 2010 at 8:33 am
The origin of democracy was in Greece.
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