Where did democracy begin? the fertile crescent greek city-states the united states the assyrian empire

The correct answer is Greek city-states.

Democracy (from Greek: Rule by People) is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting and electing a government.

During the Classical period ( 5th and 4th centuries BCE ),  Greece was a collection of several hundred independent city-states. The citizens of Athens were the first to develop a system of popular rule under the rule of Cleisthenes. The first democracy was a direct democracy with two features: there was a random selection of citizens to fill administrative and judicial offices, and there was a legislative assembly consisting of all Athenians citizens. All eligible citizens were allowed to vote and speak in the assembly but women, slaves and foreigners, non-landowners and men under 20 years of age were excluded.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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