508 BC Event

Reforms of Cleisthenes

Athens entrusts power to the citizens’ assembly: the first documented democracy in history.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 508 BC — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year earlier Birth of the Roman Republic Italy

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Ancient Greece 800 BC – 146 BC City-states, philosophy, and the first known democracy.
Rome 509 BC – 476 From the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire.

Countries involved

Greece

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What was written of it

Before 1914, the earth belonged to all. Everyone went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits and no authorisations.

Stefan Zweig 1942

The World of Yesterday. Memoirs of a European

Translated by the site, not by the author.