The greek city states did not fear democracy. They invented it.
Around 600B.C. before democracy was invented, the city-states had kings or nobles who run the affairs. When though, philosophers came up with the idea that the state would be run more effficiently with a type of government that included the people in decision-making, this was beyond any reason.
After 100 years though is was obvious to everyone that this new system of government, were the citizens of a town had power, was called Democracy (=demokratia), which is a made up-word of demos-state and kratw-hold/power. It would freely translate in English as: People (state) holds power.
yes they invented democracy but the Spartians from Sparta feared democracy
Athens turned the league of 180 city-states it led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, and ruthlessly suppressed and sacked any who revolted. Naxos was captured and paid a heavy penalty, them Melos was enslaved as an example to others not to rebel, and the citizens of Samos were branded in the forehead as another warning.
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Sparta.
Athens was the birthplace of democracy.
In Greek city-states, the idea of having an acropolis on top of a hill serving as a safe refuge or a religious temple, the idea of having an agora below the acropolis, having citizenship and having the citizens run the city-state developed in Greek city-states. Greek city-states also started using citizens as soldiers.
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Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Theocracy, Oligarchy, Anarchy and Tyranny. These are the forms of government that all Greek city-states had.
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Sparta was a Greek city-state that was a feared warrior society.
Ancient Greek city-states. Hope this helps.
Not all Greek city states had a democracy. Athens is the best example of a democracy. A democracy is run by the people. In Athens, all free adult males voted on issues.
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Yes the Greeks held a selective democracy.
Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy.
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Mostly all - like Sparta and Athens. Mycenaean and Minoan city-states also had democracy. Other city-states and eventually other countries like Rome and U.S adapted to democracy from the Greeks.
It was direct democracy where the citizens voted in assembly, as opposed to today's representative democracy, where citizens elect representatives to a parliament.