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.
In 510 BC Cleisthenes introduced profound reforms which made democracy exist as a system of government for the first time in the world. The main ideas of Cleisthenes's reforms were: 1  1. Replacement of division into tribes, fraternities and families with a territorial division.thens â cradle of democracy. Cradle of democracy is Athens, ancient Greek city-state, situated in beautiful part of Peloponnese, in Attica. Athens owe the first penal and civil law code to Draco.