What+was+the+first+democracy?

Athens was the first know democracy in the world in 508 BC and probably the most important of the ancient times. Besides Athens, many other Greek cities established a democratic government, but there weren't as powerfull as the Athens government. In Athens, they used a direct democracy, in which the citizens as a whole made direct decisions, rather then have those decisions made by them by elected representatives.

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