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>I winced a little on that part too, but he does give the caveat later that women and children weren't equal to men at all, which means that "egalitarian societ
by imbnwa 3y ago
>I winced a little on that part too, but he does give the caveat later that women and children weren't equal to men at all, which means that "egalitarian societies" means "something like 30% of the tribe was somewhat egalitarian" which really isn't saying much
That's also what ancient Athenian democracy was
- tetromino_ 3y ago> That's also what ancient Athenian democracy was Athenian democracy was far worse: ~15% of the population was hereditary uncitizens (metics) with almost no rights, ~40% were slaves with zero rights, women and children from citizen families had very limited rights of their own, so the Athenian democracy was really democracy for the ~12% of the population who were adult citizen males.