Greek democracy emerges in Jiang's account because poor polises needed everyone to fight, and the people who defended the polis gained the right to speak.
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Greek democracy emerges in Jiang's account because poor polises needed everyone to fight, and the people who defended the polis gained the right to speak.
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"And again, remember, there's no centralized authority now. That's the first thing. Second thing is diversity. So, if you look at a map of..."
"You could be the leader of this polis and you had the right to speak. But if you... You could be the poorest person..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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