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ancient democracy  

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  • 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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