WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Around 500 BCE the people of Athens decided to try governing themselves. In this Direct Democracy every citizen could vote on every issue. The city had an assembly, or law making group. Any, and only free man could speak in the Assembly and vote on a new law or a proposal to go to war.

Detailed explanation-2: -A city-state is an independent city-and sometimes its surrounding land-which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries. Monaco is a city-state.

Detailed explanation-3: -A city-state, or polis, was the community structure of ancient Greece. Each city-state was organized with an urban center and the surrounding countryside. Characteristics of the city in a polis were outer walls for protection, as well as a public space that included temples and government buildings.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vatican City, in full State of the Vatican City, Italian Stato della Città del Vaticano, ecclesiastical state, seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River. Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state.