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They had an experiment in direct democracy in the 5th Century BCE. It reached it's peak in the second half of that cemtury in Athens as a direct democracy - that is the citizens gathered each fortnight and gave directions to the Council and passed laws put before them. It was not very successful as the people were easily deluded by orators leading them up false paths, and into a disastrous 27-year war with the Peloponnesian League which they lost. The people began to lose interest in it, and more autocratic forms of government returned.
To day we have representative democracy, electing representatives to parliament as the ability to get the populace together is impracticable in most countries.
They produced the idea, but we implement it in a quite different way, and often not all that successfully. The general feeling in ancient Greece was that a well-conducted oligarchy was a better form of government than a democracy where the people were manipulated. Not much different from today.
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Did the Greeks invent democracy?
! well I'm Greek so i should know that the ancient Greeks DID invent democracy!
Was The Greek culture the birth of democracy.?
The Greek culture gave birth to democracy since ancient greeks invented the term and used it in Athens for the first time.
How did ancient Greek government influence government today?
The ancient Greeks influenced modern government as, much like we do today, they had three main bodies of government. These were the Assembly, the Council, and Courts. Our US government today also has three branches; Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
What did the ancient Greeks contribute to the history of the western?
The development of the first mathematical system of perspective
What ideology was first practiced in classical Greece?
Democracy had its origins in ancient Greece.
