2) The Athenian System of Government

Athens, with which we will be concerned here, to portray its kind democracy, was one of the hallmarks of GREEK CIVILIZATION.

The crucial moment that brought it to the forefront of history, happened some 2500 years or so after the World has witnessed the mushrooming big city-states in the Fertile Crescent, encompassing; Mesopotamia, Syria, Lebanon and  Egypt, nicknamed for good reasons; "The Cradle of Civilization". These early Levantine city-states becoming, after being dominated altogether, by some mighty foreign rulers, part of a big imperial powers.