I believe this is the essence of civilisation: I deal with matters of freedom and that very slippery word democracy. The market based societies were based around the market place where the citizens could decide for themselves what to buy, and what to sell. The palace empires were centrally organised, both politically and economically, based round a single ruler who organised the lives of their people. ![]() And I am contrasting the early palace-based societies with the early market-based societies. The great empires that came before them were palace empires based round palaces. ![]() I am asking the big question, why were Greece and Rome so different from the great empires that came before? My answer is that they were market economies, they were societies based round the forum, or marketplace, the agora in the case of Greece. What was the secret of Greece and Rome? Whenever I hear that someone is writing a new history of the world, or revealing a new ‘secret’, the first thing want to know is, what is their angle? So let me confess straight away I am approaching this from a new economic, one might almost say a new political angle.
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