[JasonC]

Face honor and revenge were the dominant social concerns in the west in the middle ages - which is when parliaments were invented. Everything starts from something else. That is part of the concept "start".

[Travis McGee]

We're told that Islam was so much more advanced than the West in the middle ages. So why are they mentally still stuck there? Surely they have had every opportunity to "invent" parliaments. Why haven't they?