And even if you look in ancient African empires, they were all organized around one particular principle -- the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power.
甚至你看古代的非洲帝国， 他们都是围绕一个特别的原则建立的—— 那就是联盟的原则， 其特征就是很大程度的授权， 分权制。