Originally Posted by
gumboot
Your problem here is two-fold:
1) I said that preservation of the Ancient Greek culture eventually resulted in the development of Western Civilisation. Democracy constitutes only one element of our culture, so this fixation on democracy is unwarranted.
Sorry, that was meant only as one example of the general idea
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2) To argue that Democracy spontaneously and independently re-emerged is to totally ignore the democratic and cultural ideals and values that persisted, and directly resulted in the reestablishment of democracy.
No, it's simply to suggest that they were not
causative in that reestablishment