athens
Yes - he was a leader of Athens who started the first steps to democracy in that city.
Athens was the birthplace of democracy.
Athens
they helped each other
they helped each other
Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Theocracy, Oligarchy, Anarchy and Tyranny. These are the forms of government that all Greek city-states had.
Greek city-states
Not all Greek city states had a democracy. Athens is the best example of a democracy. A democracy is run by the people. In Athens, all free adult males voted on issues.
The Roman road system did not have any influence whatsoever on the spread of democracy. Neither Rome nor the Roman Empire were democracies. Democracy was a Greek concept. There were some democracies in some Greek city-states, but then they collapsed. Democracy as we know it now started to develop some 1,200 years after the Romans.
a direct democracy
Rome.
Athens