Page 13 - All About History - Issue 09-14

Suffragette Emily Davison stepped in
front of the king’s horse at the 1913
Derby to draw attention to women’s Democracy
rights. She died from her injuries

The Ottoman Empire attempted a
representative democracy in 1876

Staff of the European Union assist members of its
parliament in making decisions that affect all EU countries

This issue

Gathering of the
Areopagus, a court that
The death of Socrates is often used as an
met in ancient Athens
example of the unreliability of democratic rule 14 Day in the life
Iraqi voters in Baghdad, 2005 Of a 19th-century British MP
16 Democracy through

the ages
From early Greek states to
21st-century governments
18 How to…
Become a
Roman senator
Hint: you will need to get your hands
dirty to get elected
20 Five amazing facts
Pericles, known as one of
democracy’s ‘fathers’
22 Greatest battles
When the fledgling democratic states
of Greece stood up against the might
of Persia
This democracy monument was built in Thailand after
the military overthrew the absolute monarchy in 1932
26 Hall of fame
Let us introduce you to ten of
democracy’s most important and
influential figures
28 Anatomy of… © Look and Learn; Alamy; Mary Evans
A volunteer Republican soldier in the
Spanish civil war
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The USA’s founding fathers etched on Mt Rushmore (left to right): George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln