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Democracy in Athens, Greece
Summary: Essay provides a discussion regarding democracy in Athens, Ancient Greece.
Greece... what a place! The Greeks were one of the very few people that had a writing system in times so primitive. They were also a people that had a very powerful military force, or at least one that was very admirable for their affixation to it. Though they were conquered a few times, they still did not die out as other civilizations did. Greece still is today, very much alive and running. And they were one of the very few people who also had a democracy as a form of government, or at least it was so in Athens...
Athens today is the capital city of Greece. Like many other democracies, laws and rules are made in the capital. In ancient times, Athens was the only democratic city in Greece, mainly because Greece was composed of sovereign city-states that had separate governments with the right of self-determination...
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