What events do you think was most important and influential to today's society?
Maybe one of these? Roman empire, Alexander the Great, Greek culture, Pax Romana, Jesus, Muhammed, Genghis Khan, The Black death, The fall of Constantine, The Renaissance, The Gutenburg printing press, Protestant reformation.

European colonialism, American revolution, French revolution, The American civil war, Industrial revolution, The medical revolution,  WW1 and 2, The russian revolution, The great depression, Cold war, Sputnik, JFL assasination, Digital revolution. 

DEMOCRACY

• Meaning of the word is literally "rule by the people" and it comes from Greek language
• Democracy is a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and they can exercise it both directly and indirectly
  • DIRECT DEMOCRACY:
    • Pure democracy
    • The public participates in government directly, there is no intermediary in the decisions 
  • INDIRECT DEMOCRACY:
    • Democracy thru representatives
    • Developed during the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment
    • Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of representative democracy
    • The power of the representatives is usually curtailed by the constitution or other measures

DEMOCRACY HAS COME TO IMPLY:

• Universal suffrage 
• Competition for office 
• Freedom of speech and the press
• The rule of law 

After reading watch this video by Knowledgia and learn more about democracy

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