POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Athenian Democracy
17 Jul 2018
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Athens was the most democratic place in the world. There are all kinds of places that are considered democratic depending on what we de ne democracy. In most parts of the world democracy is the same concept. Themos means people because greeks were the rst people to explore democracy. Themos was the units in which athens was constructed as a democracy. Once you get people farming, you are stuck. If you have a society that isn"t organize on agriculture and if you"re the chief then they"re going to leave. All sorts of societies were organized in the americas were more democratic than the europeans. The best historical anthropology was that democracy had been invented in iraq. How athenians made a democratic structure the actual origins and how they about athenian democracy this is a dif cult question for an economic and militarily of a relatively small communities in athens.
