长期以来，学术界流行的一种理论认为，在古代，非专制政治尤其民主政治仅仅存在于西方，广大的东方自古以来即奉行专制主义。近几十年来，史学家们陆续在古代两河流域、印度和中国等地发现民众会议、贵族或长老会议以及选举等等相似于希腊罗马城邦政治的制度或其残余或其... For a long time, a popular academic theory holds that in ancient times, non-autocratic politics, especially democratic politics, existed only in the West, and the vast East had been absolutist since ancient times. In recent decades, historians have successively found that the conventions of the people, aristocracy or elders, elections and the like in the ancient two rivers, India and China, etc., are similar to the remnants of the political system in the Greek Roman city-state or its remnants or their ...