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David Christian

“For the first time there appeared on earth kings, dictators, high priests, emperors, prime ministers, presidents, governors, mayors, generals, admirals, police chiefs, judges, lawyers, and jailers, along with dungeons, jails, penitentiaries, and concentration camps. Under the tutelage of the state, human beings learned for the first time how to bow, grovel, kneel, and kowtow. In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery.”

David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library Book 2)
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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library Book 2) (Volume 2) Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library Book 2) by David Christian
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