Local Government in Ancient India c6.s3.5

c6.s3.5

The second type, characteristic of the so-called Semitic peoples, developed into the great ancient monarchies of the East, such as the Egyptian, the Assyrian, and the Babylonian, by a mere re-duplication of similar parts. It may also be noted in this connexion that the Saracenic culture exhibits a crucial phenomenon in socio-political history, because there democracy has developed out of the absolutist institutions of the second type under the equalizing and levelling influences of Islamic religion.