Wengrow / Graeber: "Our term 'the state' only came into common usage in the late sixteenth century, when it was coined by a French lawyer named Jean Bodin"
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
> tagged with #timeline, #government
> created July 15, 2025 at 2:39:05 PM
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