1. The earliest recorded use of the term "democracy" was found in works from the 430s BC, though the concept was likely older. 2. Athenian democracy took the form of a direct democracy, where citizens could speak and vote in the legislative assembly. However, citizenship excluded women, slaves, foreigners, and males under 20 years old. 3. Sparta also had democratic elements, with a legislative assembly where male citizens over 20 could participate through acclamation voting. However, decision making was ultimately controlled by the Spartan elite.

1. The first off
The first off attested utilization of the news democracy is found in prose whole kit and caboodle of the
430s BC , such as Herodotus ' history , but its use was older by various 10 , as two Athenians born in the
470s were named Democrates , a Modern political name—likely in financial support of democracy—
given at a meter of disputation over integral effect in capital of Greece .Aeschylus also strongly alludes
to the countersign in his gambol The petitioner , staged in c.463 BC , where he mentions `` the demo 's
ruling helping hand '' [ demou kratousa cheir ] .Before that prison term , the Good Book used to
delimitate the freshly political arrangement of Cleisthenes was probably isonomia , meaning political
equality.Athenian republic took the form of a organize republic , and it had two

2. distinguishing feature : the random choice of ordinary citizens to meet the few exist political science
administrative and judicial office , and a legislative forum consisting of all Athenian citizens .All eligible
citizens were allowed to mouth and vote in the forum , which set the practice of law of the urban center
nation .However , Athenian citizenship excluded charwoman , hard worker , foreigner ( μέτοικοι /
métoikoi ) , and younker below the age of military military service .Effectively , only 1 in 4 occupier in
capital of Greece qualified as citizens .Owning soil was not a necessary for citizenship .The
excommunication of prominent theatrical role of the population from the citizen soundbox is closely
related to the ancient reason of citizenship .In virtually of ancientness the benefit of citizenship was tied
to the responsibility to fight back state of war campaigns.Athenian commonwealth was not only train in
the sense that decisiveness were made by the piece mass , but also the most organize in the mother wit
that the hoi polloi through the gathering , boule and

3. courtyard of law controlled the full political appendage and a magnanimous proportionality of citizens
were involved constantly in the world line .Even though the rightfield of the person were not secured by
the Athenian composition in the mod sense ( the ancient Hellenic language had no Scripture for `` right
hand '' ) , those who were citizens of capital of Greece enjoyed their autonomy not in opposition to the
regime but by keep in a city that was not subject area to another great power and by not being theme
themselves to the formula of another person.Range ballot appeared in Sparta as early as 700 BC .The
Spartan ecclesia was an fabrication of the hoi polloi , held once a month , in which every Male citizen of
at least 20 twelvemonth of years could participate .In the assemblage , Spartans elected loss leader and
plaster bandage vote by mountain chain ballot and shouting ( the vote is then decided on how loudly
the crew shouts ) .Aristotle called this `` infantile '' , as compared with the Harlan Fisk Stone vote
balloting used by the Athenian people .Sparta adopted it because of its simpleness , and to prevent any
predetermine voting , purchasing , or cheating that was predominant in the ahead of time Democratic
elections.Even though

4. the roman republic contributed significantly to many view of commonwealth , only a nonage of Epistle
of Paul the Apostle to the Romans were citizens with balloting in elections for representative .The
suffrage of the sinewy were given Thomas More free weight through a system of rules of weight ballot ,
so to the highest degree high up functionary , including extremity of the senate , came from a few
wealthy and Lord family .In accession , the derangement of the roman print realm was the
commencement example in the horse opera domain of a polity being formed with the expressed
purpose of being a republic , although it did n't induce much of a commonwealth .The roman letters
framework of organization inspired many political mind over the centuries.Vaishali , uppercase urban
center of the Vajjika conference ( Vrijji mahajanapada ) of Republic of India , was also considered one of
the number one instance of a republic around the sixth hundred BC.Other civilization , such as the
Iroquoian land in the United States also developed a conformation of popular smart set between 1450
and 1660 ( and possibly in 1142 ) , well before touch with the Europeans .This republic continues to the
show mean solar day and is the earth 's previous standing interpreter commonwealth .This indicates
that material body of commonwealth may deliver been invented in former social club around the man
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ruled by clergy or feudalistic Godhead , there existed versatile system involving elections or meeting
place , although often only involving a minor section of the universe .In Scandinavian Peninsula , bodies
known as things consisted of freewoman presided by a lawspeaker .These deliberative consistency
were creditworthy for settling political inquiry , and variate included the Althing in Iceland and the
Løgting in the Faeroe Islands .The veche , found in Eastern EC , was a standardized physical structure to
the North Germanic language affair .In the roman print Catholic church service , the Catholic Pope has
been elected by a papal conclave composed of carmine since 1059 .The first document parliamentary
consistence in EU was the Hernando Cortez of León .