Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-29212992-20161214142411

Athens was the first democracy and only for a small period of time, as after the peloponnesian war Athens became an oligarchy, as for the claim that it was the largest, that is false as Athens was merely a city state. The largest there has ever been would be the U.S government, but there are noticeable differences between the two, a major one being that Athens was a direct democracy, whereas the U.S is a representative democracy.