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According to Appiah, "To Think of a Civilization as Coherent

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According to Appiah, "To think of a civilization as coherent is to miss the fact that these different values and beliefs are not merely different but actually opposed. Worse, what had been presented as the coherent, unified worldview of a tribal people often turned out, on later inspection, to be merely the __________ of a dominant group or interest."


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Property Qualifications

Historical voting or office-holding requirements that individuals own property of a certain value to participate in the political process.

Holding Office

The term refers to the duration or period in which an individual serves in a particular position or office.

Landed Gentry

Refers to the class of wealthy landowners in Britain who held significant social status but did not possess titles of nobility.

Republicanism

A political ideology centered around the concept of a republic, where the government is a public matter and the public matters are decided by elected representatives of the population.

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