what condition allowed the Greeks to have direct democracy?

Answer 1

Very small city states made independent by their geographical locations (islands). The Greeks were also pretty smart and treated their slaves well.

Answer 2

In ancient Greece they had city states. With a city of 50,000 people, a large one for the times, and considering only male adults could vote things get narrowed down. Not everyone entered the forum all the time. Only those present at the forum could offer legislation or vote on the legislation proposed by others. While there were still a lot of poeple involved it is not what we would have in the USA with 100 million people who might be eligable to vote. If even 1% of us were to converge on Washington each day we would still have way too many people to get anything done. This is why we have a republic.

Answer 3

It was a tiny city-state and that makes it much, much easier to have a direct democracy. Kind of like the way small town local govts. use to work in the US before they Revolutionary war. Everybody basically knows everybody & that makes it real easy to have a direct democracy.

Answer 4

each citizen was part of the community and voted directly...but to be a citizen, you basically had to be a person of means...to be able to raise your own army or fleet...or at least have men and slaves you could commit to an enterprise...the men and women and slaves who worked for these lesser leaders had no say...it was a great attempt at democracy...but it did not in any way resemble universal suffrage