INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first known democracy in the world was in Athens. Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century B.C.E. The Greek idea of democracy was different from present-day democracy because, in Athens, all adult citizens were required to take an active part in the government.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Athenian democracy, not only did citizens participate in a direct democracy whereby they themselves made the decisions by which they lived, but they also actively served in the institutions that governed them, and so they directly controlled all parts of the political process.

Detailed explanation-3: -Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly. Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly. In the late 6th century B.C., the Greek city-state of Athens began to lay the foundations for a new kind of political system.