origins of Democracy?

 

 

 

Origins of Democracy

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Osiris worship in Ancient Egypt may have started Democracy.  First only the family and court of the Pharaoh (King of Egypt) could access the Afterlife.  Later it was seen as more profitable if the common people could access it, but to do so they needed to be righteous or moral.  This became Democracy, where the people decided their fate in Government.  The idea spread to Ancient Greece.  The Greeks used Democracy as a Political form of Government in City-States; the idea for States is from Egypt, whom had 2 States – Upper & Lower Egypt.  The Romans took ideas from Ancient Greece (and Egypt) for the Republic of Rome and later (from Egypt’s Pharaohs style of rule) for the Roman Empire.  These cultures inspired the American Democracy thousands of years later. 

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