Direct democracy is when everyone in a country votes on something. People's rights might be denied because it would be a tyrannical rule of the majority. For example, there's only 15% African-Americans in the US. If the 85% Caucasian population decided to vote something that was against the rights of the African-Americans, they wouldn't be able to oppose this because they would be a minority.
Historians today consider the period preceding the Renaissance to be the Middle Ages, which effectively began with the fall of Rome in the fifth century and lasted for some eight or nine centuries. ... Following the Renaissance, the world started changing in several significant ways
Is was about getting revenge for the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand yet many countries has peace treatise with many others so they all attacked one one-another