Greek+democracy

Greek Democracy Democracy is where each individual person has a vote about what to do. Whatever has the most votes wins. The first democracy began in Athens. In most city-states only rich men were aloud to vote. It was inconvenient for men to always be voting so many democracies decided to choose a few men to vote. Athens gave out spots through lottery. Democracy was taken over by the Roman Empire in 100 B.C. 1000 years later other city-states from Italy went back to democracy.

-Rule of the people -1 person= 1 vote -people decide -Began in Athens in 510 B.C. -Works best in small societies since people vote for everything -Other early examples of democracy- city states in Italy