d only be susceptible to another attack. This time it would come from a different power and would have severe results. First, it is important to understand how democracy came about within the polis that was the Greeks' center for commerce, and culture. Typically, city-states moved through four stages: monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy. Each one of those stages featured great rulers who tried to inflict their form of justice through their means until Cleisthenes, and aristocrats sympathetic to democracy assumed leadership. It is fascinating to conceive that this ancient civilization valued th
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