Ancient History of the West: Athenian Democracy and Afro Asian Civilization

Ancient Afro-Asian civilizations are also known as the Great River Civilizations.

The large river basins of ancient North Africa and Asia, with fertile fields for thousands of miles, convenient irrigation, and unique agricultural environment, have created good conditions for human survival. Ancient inhabitants have been working in these areas for a long time, living and multiplying, so the Great River Basin has become the birthplace of human civilization.

Ancient large river basins were characterized by agricultural civilization, and agriculture was the most important production sector in these regions, and it was also the economic basis for the formation and development of countries in these regions. Ancient Egypt, Babylon, ancient India, and China, which were ancient civilizations in Asia and Africa, were established and developed on the basis of an agricultural economy and showed their own civilization characteristics.

The civilizations of Asia and Africa belong to the great river civilizations.

Western civilization belongs to the maritime civilization.

The greatest significance of Athenian democracy is its influence on philosophy: because direct democracy led to the decline of Greece, it led to the reflection ...... Socrates and Plato

However, the Athenian democracy is of little significance to the development of modern human civilization and democracy. It's just a propaganda function. The analysis is as follows:

Greece is a direct democracy.

Later Western representative democracy arose naturally under economic, political, and social conditions. It has something to do with the system formed by the struggle between the nobility and the king for power: the Magna Carta. It has nothing to do with the Greek system.

The birthplace of Western civilization: Crete, Greece.

Characteristics of the Greek city-states: First, small countries and widows, in terms of land and population, the gap between the city-states is relatively large. Second, it is precisely because of the characteristics of the small Greek country and the oligopoly that direct democracy has been formed.

The citizen is both the master of the city-state and the city-state itself. Thirdly, the basic requirement of direct democracy is to involve as many citizens as possible in the administration of the State, and another important feature is the equality of citizens among themselves. Therefore, almost all the city-states in Greece did not levy direct taxes on their citizens, and the military manifestation of the city-state citizenship system was the citizen soldier system.

The essence of Athenian democracy: slave-owning democracy.

The birthplace of Western civilization is the Aegean civilization. Greek city-states were characterized by small states and widows. The essence of Athenian democracy was the democracy of the slave-owning class.

At that time, the development of Athens was relatively sensitive, there were a lot of farmers and workshop owners, these bridge people wanted to get equality, and finally made reforms, they had the right to participate in some politics, for these people it was democratic, but there were still a lot of slaves at that time, and the status of those mountain slaves was relatively low, so it was slave owner democracy.

It is directly related to the development background of this country. It also has to do with their way of life, when citizens were actively involved in politics. They put the collective good in the spotlight.

Because democracy is confined to the collective members of citizens, and there are still many slaves in it, there is such a saying.