>>>History is very clear,...>>>
Who's history?
Recorded history is fairly recent. To assume people could not communicate well or that they only had a numerical awareness which went up to two, only because nothing has been recorded is rather naïve if you ask me. I'm going to counter your assertion that people were dumb with a speculation that wisdom and democratic awareness has been with us since the beginning.
We are only now discovering that India had wide spread democratic groups and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest merchants managing caravans understood quantity and possessed a richness of language.
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In India republican politics were most common and vigorous in 600 B.C.-A.D. 200. At this time, India was in the throes of urbanization. The Pali Canon gives a picturesque description of the city of Vesali in the fifth century B.C. as possessing 7707 storied buildings, 7707 pinnacled buildings, 7707 parks and lotus ponds, and a multitude of people. The cities of Kapilavatthu and Kusavati were likewise full of traffic and noise. Moving between these cities were great trading caravans of 500 or 1000 carts.
There was a complex vocabulary to describe the different types of groups that ran their own affairs. Some of these were obviously warrior bands; others more peaceful groups with economic goals; some religious brotherhoods. Such an organization, of whatever type, could be designated, almost indifferently, as a gana or a sangha; and similar though less important bodies were labeled with the terms sreni, puga, or vrata. Gana and sangha, the most important of these terms, originally meant "multitude." By the sixth century B.C., these words meant both a self-governing multitude, in which decisions were made by the members working in common, and the style of government characteristic of such groups. In the case of the strongest of such groups, which acted as sovereign governments, the words are best translated as "republic."
...histories of India during and just after Alexander the Great's invasion of India in 327-324 B.C. These works spoke of numerous cities and even larger areas being governed as oligarchies and democracies
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