History of society and democracy: before new epoch: Big Start: Democracy in Early Civilizations

Democracy is the most complex and polysemantic type of political regime in the forms of implementation. Debates have not ceased about the meaning of the term "democracy" for seven centuries, since 1260, when the word was first used in the translation of Aristotelian "Politics". The first states of human civilization and their social laws are very interesting and informative for modern man because even in these ancient societies we find elements of democracy that form the basis of the future classical democracy of Athens. There are social and philosophical history of the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian kingdoms, Ancient Egypt, the states of the Ancient East and Ancient Indian society as well as Ancient China in one book.