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Wars, Politics and Education

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The Roman Republic Was Not a Democracy

In athens, there was a low property qualification, so the number of adult males were free that were not voting was very small. In sparta, you had to be born two spartan parents and what that percentage of the resident population? About forty thousand people. Ten thousand adult males probably voted. And everybody shill see how restricted. Well, you start to nothing in persia, nothing in egypt, nothing in gaul nothing in garmanius. Or any incremental increase in representations is progress. So chattel slavery allowed people to be more democratic, or serfs. One thing i'll leave you with is tat. It required if you're going to ensl

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