Direct Democracy and Athens

Athens was located on the Western Europe specifically it’s one of the city on Greece. It was the first birth of democracy and also it was the home of education, that’s included Philosophy, Artists and so many scientists were appeared in Athens. In this city there were so many government came out, but none of them didn’t satisfy what the Athenian people wanted, except one king was called Pericles. He was the first leader who proposed democracy and made Athens glorious by different directions, those were by their military, economy and by other things. The important thing why we learned about Athenian history is their astonishing change in the Western Europe . That means they were super smart in Architecture, artist and so many scientist were appeared. When we see their Architecture they built an amazing and unique, even in the present time when people built houses they used the design of Athens, some of them are, White house. In addition we use Democracy, when we get get back Athenian history, they started the first direct Democracy, but the difference between the present Democracy and Athenian Democracy is modernization. Because all countries in the world used representative Democracy( A type of Democracy that people choose one representative to do things like them) we called it modern Democracy, but in the other side the Athenian used direct democracy ( A type of Democracy that people vote or discussed directly). so, out base or starter was Athens.

Athenian looked their selves like precious and valuable. That means they had their own system in governing and military.for instance, in the text it says “ The Greek of ionia, unhappy with Persian rule and wanting independence, rebelled in 499 B.C faced with a m...

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Athenian did so many legacies for the new generation or for today. For example, by their democracy and by architecture. That means we used democracy, but the base of democracy was Athens. Pericles started a democracy which was called direct democracy, that was the people vote or doing something directly, but when we see the present time we used representative democracy, that is the people choose their representative to do what the people want. so we learned that democracy is the reflection of Athens. The second one is their architect( Parthenon), their building is sophisticated and even for the present time, they couldn't figure it out how they built it . Most building in U.S are copied their design For instance, White house. This shows that their contribution are so many things for the new generation..