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Athens was the first democracy that started to thrive in the fourth century. Greece ran on city-states and the city-states came up with the idea of democracy. One of them being Athens.
The Athenians were the most involved and later over through the monarchy. It was a direct democracy that consisted of men of the age of 18. The democracy made public law and decisions. People apart of the democracy were chosen randomly over the year.
Athens showed success with direct democracy. Direct democracy has evolved throughout the years and is still used to this day.

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The Roman Empire started very similarly to how Athens started. They were originally a monarchy, but the monarchy was overthrown and the new government was referred to as the republic.
It involved two social classes one being the rich and the other being the common folk. They held elections but women, enslaved, and non-foreign folk could not participate.  The government was centered in the Senate and involved around 300 members.
The Roman Empire government was deemed extremely successful. America has even based many things on their government from the Roman Empire.

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When the Roman Empire's government system crashed they started the idea of feudalism.
Feudalism was loosely organized and it was ruled by lords. The richer the lord was the more power they had. It was an agreement that the town folk just had to worship them and they would keep their lands organized. The majority of the population was at the bottom of the chain. They were considered peasants.
The peasants were treated very unwell which caused many of them to die young. This made this type of government less successful

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The Roman Catholic Church started to grow as the Roman Empire was spreading. During the middle ages, many more people began converting to Christianity.
The Bible showed the true way of life, and how people should worship. The rulers consisted of the pope and bishops. Their power grew and many people were following the Ten Commandments.
Although many people disagree about religion being the political party that people had to follow. It was decently successful in the beginning.

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The lords didn't last a long time and soon became weak. The people decided to turn to monarchs to take control. By the 1400s the monarchs' power was growing.
Feudalism was becoming nonexistent and things started becoming national. Monarchs got absolute monarchy which made them the strongest in the nation.
Many individuals liked having monarchies, making them very successful, and there are still many monarchs today.

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Colonialism began in the 1400s-1500s.
It went together with monarchies and it allowed for more trade and wealth. It also allowed for more things to be spread around the world including religion, laws, and settlers.
Colonialism was successful and it helped allow for more trade and ideas.

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Mercantilism was something that branched off of colonialism that the monarchs started to make things more successful.
The monarchies liked it because it increased their power and wealth. Mercantilism allowed for more metals and the start of an economy. It expanded into the western hemisphere. The monarch's power kept on expanding.
It did cause many problems between people, but it did have much success in keeping the government stable.

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These people were philosophers who came up with new usually better ideas for the government.
The people consisted of  John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, etc. They all seemed to have many theories that consisted of many different things. As more ideas from the philosophers came through, monarchs started to lose power. Popular sovereignty became more important and the citizens started to take a little more control.
They were extremely important because popular sovereignty helped form the type of government that America uses today.

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The Netherlands have been a monarchy since 1814. In the Netherlands the powers of the monarchs are very limited. Most of the government rules are controlled by the ministers. Although the monarchs do run the state.

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Brunei is the only running Monarchy is Southeast Asia. They have been a monarchy since they gained independence from Britain. Brunei has been extremely successful and is one of seven dictatorships in the world. It has very strict religious laws, but is said to be very stable.