To understand how democracy developed in ancient Greece, you must examine the <em>polis</em>, which was the Greek word for a city-state. The Greeks shared a language and culture, but each polis had a different government. In 509 BCE, Athens created a new set of rules that gave power to the people. The Greeks called this government democracy. Members of the Council of 500 were chosen randomly.
Early in the 20th Century, jazz music became very popular. It has its roots in New Orleans when African Americans first started playing it before it traveled up to Chicago and Harlem in New York.
By October 1990, Germany was reunified, triggering the swift collapse of the other East European regimes. People celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
