The First Democracy

Today in class we learned a lot.  The most important subject we talked about was the first democracy. The first democracy was born in 502 BCE.  It went a lot differently then we would do know.  They gathered men.  Speakers would stand on top of the agora and give out speeches.  The men were handed two rocks.  One of the rocks was disagree, which was black.  The other rock was white which symbolized  for agreement.  The men would through the rock they wanted to in to a large pot.  They counted up the two different rocks.  Whatever rock was the most popular was what the democracy was going to do.  In class, we talked about social problems today.  Some people would agree and disagree, and some people would have different takes on the problems.  Overall I personally believe that a democracy is a great thing.  Emperors and Pharaohs would just do whatever they thought was right and no one could do anything about it.