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This book did a lot to inform my sketch: https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-Modern-World/dp/1780747411/ https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Indu

This book did a lot to inform my sketch: https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-Modern-World/dp/1780747411/ https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-... I don't think she says anything about democracy at all. It doesn't seem to have been common in pre-industrial times.

bluGill 2y ago
Representative democracy as we think of democracy - didn't exist much from what I can tell (I'm not an expert in history though). However small villages tended to have the "elders" gather to deal with government matters which looks a lot like direct democracy (and has significant problems - "busy bodies" are more likely to attend and make decisions for the average person who is trying to do something else with their limited time).