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The author of this article claims that the institution of slavery did not exist in ancient Persia.

However, Queen Esther, exact date unknown but certainly decades after the overthrow of Babylon, mentions the possibility that her people might have been sold into slavery by the King instead of being massacred.

If slavery did not in the empire, how could this have been even a possibility?

To be perfectly fair, the term "slavery" covers a multitude of relationships, with enormous variability as to status, rights, etc. down through history. All Persians considered themselves "slaves of the King." Since the King had power of life and death over all his subjects, this was indeed true in a very real sense.

"Democracy may well be the best form of government. But what makes America great is not so much democracy as it is its Bill Of Rights."

First we have never lived in or had a Democracy. Our government is based, as are all the European Governments on the Republic of Rome. We live in a representative Republic, which does not give its power to the majority. That was tried by Athens and failed big time and I do not think it was ever tried again. The original Constitution gave the people one House as did ancient Rome and the state one house, the Senate which was changed with the 17th Amendment which should be repealed as it is helping to destroy the country, and the President as leader was a representative of the states and not the people, his duty is to protect and defend the Constitution and be the Commander in Chief.

Our individual freedom given us by the Bill Of Rights, in our Constitution, has been, as you said, the instrument that has allowed our country to prosper and become great. With a diversity of peoples, as was the same as Rome, we became the icon of freedom for the world. But that individual freedom is being eroded by the left who want to crown another King or whatever they call the dictator of the Communist government that the left wants to place upon our heads.

Thank goodness we have never had a Democracy or we would not be living in a free country today. The people did not want to fight the Civil War and would have voted against it. As a matter of fact it would be hard to find any war that the majority of the people would have voted for.