Editing Historical examples of decentralized organization (section)

== Thassalocracies ==
[[wikipedia:Thalassocracy|Thassalocracies]] often emerge first as decentralized groups which find common purpose in creating security and stability for trade on the ocean. 

=== Greek democracies ===
The [[wikipedia:Delian_League|Delian league]] ...

=== Maritime republics ===
[[wikipedia:Maritime_republics|Maritime republics]] emerged in the Mediterranean during the Middle ages.

=== Pirate confederacies ===
Pirate confederacies would often take particularly [[wikipedia:Distribution_of_justice|democratic forms]]  of [[wikipedia:Governance_in_18th-century_piracy|government]]. This was especially evident during the [[wikipedia:Golden_Age_of_Piracy|Golden Age of Piracy]] in the Caribbean preceding the foundation of the United State of America. The [[wikipedia:Pirate_code|pirate code]] was based on a previous maritime law, the [[wikipedia:Rolls_of_Oléron|Rôles d´Oléron]], (detailed [https://www.trans-lex.org/116770/_/a-lex-mercatoria-of-the-sea-in-piergiovanni-vito-from-lex-mercatoria-to-commercial-law-s-207-et-seq-/ here]) from the 12th century. 

Another interesting example is the hypothesized [[wikipedia:Sea_Peoples|Sea Peoples]], claimed as a reason for the [[wikipedia:Late_Bronze_Age_collapse|Bronze Age Collapse]].