WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is Democracy? The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos", meaning people, and “kratos” meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as “power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term is derived from demoi ( in original Ancient Greek, plural form of or demos), meaning “peoples” and kratos () meaning “power” (to govern oneself). It is apparently meant to become an alternative to democracy, understood as power of a single demos.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Greek Communists the Greek word democracy (), meaning the rule of the demos, refers to the ancient rule of the ruling social class of free citizens, forming the demos, in the Athenian Republic of the city-state which represented a minority while the slaves were the majority of the population.

Detailed explanation-4: -Democracy is a form of government where elected representatives hold power. Citizens elect their representatives through voting and these elected representatives hold the power.