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All four—(A) the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan, (B) Feudal France, (C) the Achaemenid Persian Dynasty, and (D) Fifth-Century Athens—belong to the pre-bureaucratic political…

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In his book, 'The Political Systems of Empires : The Rise and Fall of the Historical Bureaucratic Societies', S.N. Eisenstadt regards five political systems as pre-bureaucratic. Which of the following political systems are considered as pre-bureaucratic ?
(A) Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan
(B) Feudal France
(C) Achaemenid Persian Dynasty
(D) Fifth Century Athens

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All four—(A) the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan, (B) Feudal France, (C) the Achaemenid Persian Dynasty, and (D) Fifth-Century Athens—belong to the pre-bureaucratic political systems that S.N. Eisenstadt distinguishes from centralized historical bureaucratic empires in The Political Systems of Empires (1963).

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