Athens in 508 BCE.
Greece invented democracy and really how did you not know that LOL
Civilisation can only develop if there is a surplus of food to support cultural activity. The Fertile Crescent produced that surplus.
Athens developed the first democracy around the fifth century B.C.
In the Indus River valley.
There currently is no liberal Arab democracy. Tunisia Post-Arab Spring may become the first, but it needs time to develop.
Between economic growth and democracy, economic growth should come first. When a country is able to develop in terms of the economy, then it becomes easier to embrace democracy.
The Mediterranean Sea did not develop the Roman civilisation. Seas do not develop civilisations. It was the other way round. The Roman civilisation was one of the civiliastions which developed in the Mediterranean (because Rome was and still is in the Mediterranean). Other Mediterranean civilisations were the Egyptians, the Phoenicians and the Greeks.
Ancient societies are considered as civilisations when they develop a centralised form of government, whether it is a collection of small city states ruled by kings as in Sumer (the first civilisation in history) or a large kingdom like that of Egypt (the second civilisation in history).
The do you know fact about Greece is that the acient Athenians were the first humans to develop democracy.
architecture, art, religion, and nice spelling "civilisation'... its a z kid
Indus Valley Civilisation or Harapan Civilisation.
The occupied fertile river valleys, which gave them the surplus produce on which civilisation could develop.