Is the creation of States always a top-down affair? It seems every culture that produced a state, at least in history, there was some law-giving King/Great Man that united tribes, adopted a religion. forced people to settle or built a city. Are there any instances of bottom-up state creation?
by /u/Seswatha in /r/AskHistorians
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