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More excerpts from America: The Book by Jon Stewart
[from the Timeline of Democracy]
1775 B.C.: Code of Hammurabi radically redefines social contract from "I will kill you" to "I will kill you if you do one of the following 282 things."
1300 B.C.: God gives Ten Commandments to Israelites, making them His Chosen People and granting them eternal protection under Divine Law. Nothing bad ever happens to Jews again.
May 3, 325 B.C.: Rome built.
8th-9th century: Chinese develop gunpowder, banking, newspapers, advanced medicine, paper money. Not Western; doesn't count.
1347: Black Death kills 1 in 3 Europeans. Leech lobby touts 67% success rate.
[from Philosophical Roots of American Democracy]
Plato Fun Fact: In spite of his reputation as a thinker for he ages, during his lifetime Plato's only best-seller was a mass-market scroll entitled Reason Yourself Thin!
[from the Timeline of Democracy]
1775 B.C.: Code of Hammurabi radically redefines social contract from "I will kill you" to "I will kill you if you do one of the following 282 things."
1300 B.C.: God gives Ten Commandments to Israelites, making them His Chosen People and granting them eternal protection under Divine Law. Nothing bad ever happens to Jews again.
May 3, 325 B.C.: Rome built.
8th-9th century: Chinese develop gunpowder, banking, newspapers, advanced medicine, paper money. Not Western; doesn't count.
1347: Black Death kills 1 in 3 Europeans. Leech lobby touts 67% success rate.
[from Philosophical Roots of American Democracy]
Plato Fun Fact: In spite of his reputation as a thinker for he ages, during his lifetime Plato's only best-seller was a mass-market scroll entitled Reason Yourself Thin!
