We all know that "History begins with Sumer", but when we look at any history of political thought book, we see that political thought mostly started with Plato, and sometimes the Natural philosophers, Sophists and Socrates, who were a little before him, are mentioned. What is the reason why almost everything, especially the history of political thought, started or was initiated with Ancient Greece? Does it depend on the historical records or is it a conscious choice? Since this issue seems like an important issue that may be overlooked but needs to be emphasized, it seems useful to consider possible answers. There seem to be two possible reasons to why the history of political thought begins with Ancient Greece. 1Subjective Reason: This is the reason that we can describe as Eurocentrism. As Pierre Beaudet emphasizes, starting the history of everything with Ancient Greece is not a historical necessity but a conscious choice. As a result of the belief that everything started with Europe and that European civilization is at the origin of everything, the history of everything goes back to Ancient Greece and does not consciously go back from there. Because after that, the East begins. In this case, the "East" will be at the origin of the West and the idea of Eurocentrism will be diluted. 2- Objective Reason: The fact that the history of political thought begins with Ancient Greece is a result of examining objective historical data, not because of the preference for Eurocentrism. Because, in the history of world science, various societies have made various contributions to science. The greatest contribution of the Greeks to the history of science is abstraction and theorization. Just as the Egyptians, who measured the ground just to solve a concrete problem- to find the boundaries of the fields after the Nile River flooded once a year- discovered geometry, the Greeks contributed to the history of science by abstracting and theorizing it, in the same way, the practice of politics is a phenomenon as old as world history. However, there is no work on the theory of politics written before the Greeks that has survived to the present day. In politics, as in geometry, the Greeks' contribution to science was abstraction and theorization. Therefore, starting political theory with Ancient Greece is not a result of having a Eurocentric perspective, but a result of objective scientific data.
