ANCIENT GREEK & CRADLE OF DEMOCRACY

Ancient Greek & Cradle of Democracy

Ancient Greek & Cradle of Democracy

Today, when we do something as simple as vote, we are taking part in one of history's great experiments in government democracy. But our freedoms might not have been possible without the world's first democratic experiment, in ancient Athens.

About the year 1000 BC, in the area of today's Greece, after long and hard fights the first city-states (polis) started to arise. As a result Greece was divided into: Doric part (Sparta), Achaian part (Arcadia) and Ionic part (Attica). From these three cultures the ...