There have been many serious droughts in Australia in the last 200 years. The 1895â1903 drought lasted eight years and caused the death of half of Australia's sheep and forty per cent of its cattle. The 1963â68 drought caused a forty per cent reduction in wheat crops across Australia.
The main reason why direct democracy worked for the ancient Greek city of Athens was because Athens had literate citizens but there were other reasons. This question is archived.
The only true democracy was the ancient Greek democracy since democracy is literally a Greek word that they coined for that particular style of government. All democracies since then have been modeled on ancient Greek democracy. And Mesopotamia did not invent democracy.