Originally Posted By: canvasback
Originally Posted By: Researcher
We've lasted longer then the original democracy in Athens!!


I think you have a few more centuries to go yet.


The original democracy in Athens began about 500 BC and ended with Philip II wiping out the combined Greek armies at the battle of Chaeronea, on August 2nd, 338 BC. Greece would not regain its freedom from foreign occupation until the early 19th century AD.