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This article does not get the main difference between the Roman Empire and all these other great states. Most notably, the fact that we are still living in the Roman Empire.

Property Law? Check. Marriage and Divorce? Check. Democracy and Public Life processes? Check.

Well it evolved of course. But hey... Republic comes from Res Publica not Kushan Whatever.




> But hey... Republic comes from Res Publica not Kushan Whatever.

Is HN really a place for such uneducated snarky comments? The reason we use Republic and English is due to the barbaric colonization by European powers in the past.

There were democracies in Ancient East too, and if you read the laws of Ashoka/Gupta etc, you'll find they were much more advanced than most of their contemporaries. We don't need to stoop so low to discredit other cultures just because we can't overcome our bias.


> The reason we use Republic and English is due to the barbaric colonization by European powers in the past.

The amount of self-loathing in the West is reaching critical levels.


It gets a tad inconvenient to compute with a numerical system that goes XVII... Computation and algorithms are sorta important. Vaishali was a republic a long time before.

> Property Law? check. Marriage and Divorce? check

Are you really saying that these ideas originated in Roman empire ? I think expanding your reading repertoire will help get a more informed perspective.

All I can say is that your comment does not come off as particularly knowledgeable or educated.




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