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Athens, Greece was one of the birthplaces of democracy. Athenian democracy was a direct democracy in which every citizen voted directly on issues of importance, rather than electing representatives to vote for them.

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Greeks were the first people to begiin the idea of democracy instead of the usual monarchy. so basically it was democracy.

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Was Ancient Greece one large empire?

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