2007-02-14 09:04:05 · 17 answers · asked by Led*Zep*Babe 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Probably Greece.
2007-02-14 09:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Sumeria, India and Greece all developed democracies about the same time during the period from around 600 to 400 B.C.
The Sumerians may have had it earlier, but their records don't go back any earlier than that. Their democracy eventually devolved into a monarchy.
The Greeks generally get credit for introducing democracy to the western world because they left better records.
2007-02-14 17:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
maybe America
I think the Greek democracies were city states, not countries
Rome wasn't a democracy
there may have been a northern European Democracy but I'm not sure, it seems like I have heard this though
2007-02-14 17:17:18 · answer #3 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want democracy in name, I'd agree with Greece. Rome had it after its all-too-brief period of a republic; the next democracy was the United States after its own republic ended. For the record, we're not a true democracy anymore and our republic, as I said, disintegrated long ago -- sometime around the mid- to late 1800s. We're closer now to socialism than we ever should have had nightmares about becoming.
2007-02-14 17:09:29 · answer #4 · answered by Richard S 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That would be the prehistoric country of Oognatz. This republic was very short-lived as it was stomped flat by a dinosaur who did not know he was supposed to be extinct. The next one was Sparta, where decisions in public policy were made by a meeting of every citizen in the state. If we tried that, there would be some amazing parking and bathroom problems.
2007-02-14 17:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Democracy--as we think of it--began in ancient Greece in the 5th centuryy BC. Today, we would not call it that--the right to participate in civic affairs was limited to a small part of the population. But the esssential concepts--of a government of and answerable to the people--began there--primarily in the city-state of Athens following the repulsion of the attempt by Persia to conquer the Greek peninsula.
2007-02-14 17:11:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Athens, Greece. Sparta was run by a council of three rulers, and just them. You did not vote in Sparta. You served the State.
2007-02-14 17:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient Sparta was probably the first truly democratic legal entity. Athens had slaves and women were not allowed to vote, unlike Sparta.
2007-02-14 17:09:19 · answer #8 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The sparta in Greece
2007-02-14 17:08:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Greece, specifically the Spartans.
2007-02-14 17:09:53 · answer #10 · answered by tchem75 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋