Ancient Athenian Democracy
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Democracy Isn't Like That Anymore
Ancient Greek leader clysenes is credited with inventing democracy. But where does he get his idea from, and how did it come to be? Michael Wolraich: It wasn't like he et turned up with a sort of one pager. And when this is my forin the package li, he was just basically making it up as he goes along. The tiny unit of civic organization in athens is called a deam,. There's about a hundred and 39 of them. These deams are organized into slightly bigger groups that are called trites. He takes a treatise of inland, heartland, agricultural lot who are the kind of obvious sort ofol elete
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