One reason city-states shifted to democracy was because the people wanted a say in the government. They wanted to be able to vote on laws.
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So that the majority lower classes could have a fair share in the governance of their city-state.
Athens was the spear head of democracy. Athenians placed a high value on study and intellect. This intellectual culture and the studies of science, philosophy and history lead to a democratic system. Not all of the Greek city-states had a democracy, for example Sparta had two kings and the Minoans had a monarchy as well.
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Mesopotamia is called the cradle of civilization because it was the first region to have civilization. Greece is called the cradle of democracy because it was one of the first places to have voting and other qualities of democracies. A 7th grade student
for the same reason that the myth about the one "God" was created