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The issue was that in Aristotle's time, the Akhaimenid Empire had become increasingly despotic and increasingly chaotic. These two trends fed each other. A bloody succession strife led to the ruling dynasty imposing ever higher taxes and levies on their subject peoples, to the point that the...

To ensure that those who are otherwise uninformed about the pertinent facts aren't mis-informed by blatant lies, I feel obligated to point out that the, ah... "criticism" of Aristotle in this thread is rather amateurish and dishonest. Most of the claims/accusations are either very deceptive...