Why are the Greeks considered to form the first democracy?
Although the institution of slavery was still the norm and females were still kept at a lower status then men, http://www.crystalinks.com/greekslavery.html http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/women%20in%20ancient%20athens.htm and they did not own a constitutional republic where the people have a voice through their elected representatives in modern terms, http://www.ancient-greece.us/democracy.html Greeks are considered to form the first democracy because of the ‘undemocratic’ election system they formed. Over 2200 years before the First Olympiad (ca. 776 BC) and the beginning of Greek democracy, people of Ebla saw and practiced the natural law that freedom produces wealth through abundance. Moreover, Eblaites’ political system which was the first known democracy is best propounded that Eblaites had formed an election system 2200 years before Greeks did.
