Concept information
Preferred term
ancient democracy
Definition
- Democracy began with the ancient Greeks. While a few prior kingdoms and city-states of the ancient Near East may have included a degree of communal or popular decision making in government, nowhere outside Greece did the process rise to the level of democracy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Ancient Democracy]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GTW60LBC-H
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