The underlined sentence in the outline is the introduction.
They had anti Jewish riots killed them and destroyed their shops. They did not label them as jews by beliefs but by grandparents. And they also put them in concentration camps. The also made a separate set of laws for them and marked them with stars of David. They were forced to live in ghettos too.
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But, for about 100 years, thousands of years ago, ancient Athens had a direct democracy, or a government in which all citizens vote on rules and laws. It is one of their finest gifts from the Greeks! Representative Democracy: A representative democracy is a government whose citizens vote for representatives.
I would say the Middle east. Specifically the region of the Holy Land (Jerusalem) in Palestine.
The main point of the crusades was the take that land into the possession of the Christians.
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