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How Decentralization Built the World’s Greatest Civilization
Submitted by Bri_Voluntaryist on Tue, 2016-04-05 10:10
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Nowadays, common knowledge would have one believe that the Greek’s decentralization should have made trade impossible. The opposite seems to have been the case: living standards rose for the ancient Greeks until the Romans centralized and unified the region. Life for the commoners was much better under the city states than it was under the Byzantine empire.
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