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Archaeologists find evidence of ancient democratic senates in Mexico (and the brutal two-year 'hazing' it took to join them)
2017-03-17
[DailyMail]

  • Ancient Mesoamerican city of Tlaxcallan had a senate of roughly 100 men

  • Candidates subjected to starvation, fierce public beatings, and years of study

  • Researchers also note that the grid-like structure suggests collective lifestyle
    ...and we have this:
  • Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

    #5  This "brutal, two-year 'hazing'" was NOTHING compared to what the Spartiate elite had to endure to become -- the 'elite' of Sparta'. It just took one major military loss that the 'elite' could not recover from, and that was the end of Sparta, for all intents and purposes.
    Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-03-17 17:11  

    #4  Those "five hundred Spaniards" somehow managed to recruit a native army of ca. 100,000 other-than-Aztec men, who may well have objected to their politically assigned future as the main course on Aztec dinner tables. Funny how that worked out.
    Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-03-17 16:00  

    #3  It would of been much bigger news if they found evidence of democracy in California.
    Posted by: Airandee   2017-03-17 13:40  

    #2  My vote for snark of the day.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-03-17 12:16  

    #1  If anciant Mexicans had Democrats then it is no wonder that five hundred Spaniards managed to conquer all of Mexico.
    Posted by: JFM   2017-03-17 12:09  

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