ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karl August Wittfogel, Dholavira, Mohenjo-Daro
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Euro miracle: history biased towards the euros, the west thinks its the best, hero"s etc. they think they are bringing freedom, think they are liberators. West believes they are leaders in things like democracy. This democracy was only granted to wealthy men. There were 12 other democracies or republics that existed at the same time as the one in. Europe was one of the birth placed not the only one. These 12 other republics existed in india and pakistan. They refer to the enlightenment as a period of birth to religious freedom. Places like the persian empire (keenoform saying religious tolerance is granted by cyrus) Europe believes that it was the center of philosophy. Leonidas (sparta) - socrates (athens) the buddha (india) mahavira (india) - confucius (china) - contemporaries in the 6th-5th century bc. Limited monarchies or constitutional monarchies is believed to be a european thing (magna carta, england) but limited monarchies happened in india.
