In Search of Democracy: Part 1-Birth of Democracy

[nixter888]

Do not distort things!..It was the Greeks who invented Democracy,from the time of Theseus!..Thousands of years before any Mesopotamians,Indians or anybody else!!!..How pathetic you are!!!

[nixter888]

Theseus has been one of the first kings to create a democratic society for the people by his own free will. He unified the people of Attica by going from town to town and tribe to tribe. Then he named the unified country Athens. He promised a peoples government where all things would be distrubuted equally.

[nixter888]

Theseus was the Ionian founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer. His name comes from the same root as θεσμός ("thesmos"), Greek for institution. He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens....SHAME ON YOU FOR DISTORTING THE TRUTH!

[Aegialeus]

Keane is so wrong...assemblies are a universal phenomenon evolved out of extended families into small communes, which existed in Africa much earlier than they did in the East. You do not have to have an elaborate city or city state for an assembly to exist.

By the way Demos-kratria is uniquely a creation by Greeks.

I can't stand constructionists like Keane. I have never seen the evidence that Keene & the other clone postulate about the so called eastern democracy (for a lack of a better word).

[benjaminjean1984]

very pro-israel message. Middle eastern babylonian areas had my judahs and definately israel has followed the long history ideal to how a democracy would be born to change standards. They apparently moved to the west if i am not mistaken. This is not a message that includes persia or any thing we could tie with middle eastern.

[Aegialeus]

benjaminjean1984

What I have said has nothing to do with Israel or Judah, but the East and the re-constructionist "idea" of assemblies being a unique Eastern ideology, in pre-800 BC. The Israelis or Judahas were very small tribes, & theocratic, and yet you neglect all the other tribes of other peoples as well as if the Israelis were the only peoples of the East.

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[Aegialeus]

benjaminjean1984

The first assemblies are impossible to pin down. Assembles of the elders was common in the Far East as well as, in Africa structural organization of early tribes being consistant, no different than those which were witnessed in North America by Europeans which colonized the Americas, Europe too.

No direct democracy in any way. Middle-east and Egypt is famous for it's theocratic assembly.

I.d like to see Keane's proof than listen to his rhetorical argument.

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