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Democracy, in Ancient Greece?

So, there I was in another history class, and began to wonder : “Democracy is said to be created in Athens, Greece, where every free grown man (man, not person), who had been born in Athens, and with his parents born in Athens, was a citizen…basically, only 10% of the population of Athens were citizens…And we have Sparta, where only the Spartiates could vote (About 10% of the population too), and we had 3 voting chambers(The Apella, with all Spartan citizens, the Gerousia, with 28 elders plus the two Kings of Sparta, and the chamber of the Ephors, who were the ultimate power in Sparta, but rulled only for one year),so what’s the diference between them?”

So, what are the true origins of Democracy? Greece? Rome? France, in 1789? USA, in 1776? United Kingdom, in 1651?I don’t know, but I think that we should first try to implement democracy, and after that try to discuss where it came from…

the truth? I hope not…

Other day, I was at my history class, and I thought: “Hey, it’s not that hard to change a country, I mean, if you invest in education, energy, transport and public health, you will have turned a undeveloped country into a developed one in just a few years, just like South Korea, it’s not that hard to figure this out” …Than I remembered, the politics in this country aren’t worried about their people…just about their votes…

archaeology: Is the Lion Man a Woman? Solving the Mystery of a 35,000-Year-Old Statue The poor condition of the figurine has only made it more mysterious. Is it meant to represent a mythical creature, or a shaman hiding under an animal hide? Are the six stripes on the left upper arm meant to depict scarification marks or something else? And what was on the right arm, which is missing? The genitalia are also unrecognizable. German archeologist and Upper Paleolithic expert Joachim Hahn has interpreted the small plate on the abdomen as a “penis in a hanging position.” Elisabeth Schmid, a paleontologist, classified it as a pubic triangle. It was the beginning of a bitter dispute over the gender of the small idol that erupted in the 1980s and continues to this day. The statue has been made into an “icon of the women’s movement,” says Kurt Wehrberger of the Ulm Museum, the owner of the precious object. Those who believe that the Lion Man is in fact a woman are convinced that primitive societies were matriarchal. They contend that women of the period, instead of standing obediently by the cooking fire and watching over the children, hunted mammoths and set the tone when it came to rituals and the priesthood. But is this true? The debate remains undecided today. But that could soon change, now that new fragments of the Lion Man have turned up. The new discoveries came after archeologists once again turned their attention to the Stadel cave. They sifted through all of the rubble from 1939, explains excavator Claus-Joachim Kind — and the results were sensational. “We found about 1,000 pieces, which presumably belong to the statue,” Kind says. More at the link.

archaeology:

Is the Lion Man a Woman? Solving the Mystery of a 35,000-Year-Old Statue

The poor condition of the figurine has only made it more mysterious. Is it meant to represent a mythical creature, or a shaman hiding under an animal hide? Are the six stripes on the left upper arm meant to depict scarification marks or something else? And what was on the right arm, which is missing?

The genitalia are also unrecognizable. German archeologist and Upper Paleolithic expert Joachim Hahn has interpreted the small plate on the abdomen as a “penis in a hanging position.” Elisabeth Schmid, a paleontologist, classified it as a pubic triangle.

It was the beginning of a bitter dispute over the gender of the small idol that erupted in the 1980s and continues to this day. The statue has been made into an “icon of the women’s movement,” says Kurt Wehrberger of the Ulm Museum, the owner of the precious object.

Those who believe that the Lion Man is in fact a woman are convinced that primitive societies were matriarchal. They contend that women of the period, instead of standing obediently by the cooking fire and watching over the children, hunted mammoths and set the tone when it came to rituals and the priesthood. But is this true?

The debate remains undecided today. But that could soon change, now that new fragments of the Lion Man have turned up.

The new discoveries came after archeologists once again turned their attention to the Stadel cave. They sifted through all of the rubble from 1939, explains excavator Claus-Joachim Kind — and the results were sensational. “We found about 1,000 pieces, which presumably belong to the statue,” Kind says.

More at the link.

Let’s just hope this is the dawn of a new age… It’s surelly isn’t July14th, but…

Let’s just hope this is the dawn of a new age… It’s surelly isn’t July14th, but…