egalitarian
(noun)
Believing in the principle that all people are equal.
Examples of egalitarian in the following topics:
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The Valdivia Culture
- They were a sedentary, egalitarian people, known for their early use of pottery, and feminine ceramic figures.
- They were sedentary, egalitarian people who lived off farming and fishing, and occasional deer hunting.
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Athenian Society
- Classical Athenian society was structured as a democratic patriarchy that strived towards egalitarian ideals.
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The Constitution of 1791
- However, the constitution was not egalitarian by today's standards.
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Marquis de Condorcet
- The project was judged to be contrary to the republican and egalitarian virtues.
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Joseph II and Domestic Reform
- His goal was to impose a single and egalitarian tax on land and thus modernize the relationship of dependence between the landowners and peasantry, relieve some of the tax burden on the peasantry, and increase state revenues.
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Enlightened Despotism
- To equalize the incidence of taxation, Joseph caused an appraisal of all the lands of the empire to be made so that he might impose a single and egalitarian tax on land.
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Arts and Sciences
- At the turn to the Renaissance, Gutenberg’s invention of mechanical printing made possible a dissemination of knowledge to a wider population that would lead to not only a gradually more egalitarian society, but one more able to dominate other cultures, drawing from a vast reserve of knowledge and experience.