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One of my pet peeves is the narrative that America invented democracy, and then that's used to justify American imperialism. Read about traditional governance, there was tonnes of democracy around the world with the Things and the Moots and the Veche and what have you.
It's a long long list, all over the world. Add acephalous societies of the Americas, and everything in African Political Systems by Evans Pritchard-Wood or whatever his name is.
My high school AP history teacher taught us that America was the first country to have a democratically created constitution enshrining democracy, so it must be the first and best :very-smart:
Things took place at regular intervals, usually at prominent places that were accessible by travel.
Damn, ain't that the truth.
yeah that sentence killed me. that was the moment i was like "oh yeah, i'm reposting this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiSdeX1iDRM
Good timing for this video to drop which features like 4-5 legal procedures for resolving grudges, ownership and exiles at the lokal Thing.