Today in class we took a quiz I got an 89 . The reason is that mixed the two seas the Ionian is actually    Nere the bottom of Greece instead of near the top. We also talked about how the Greeks starters the first democracy. It was as near as close as a true democracy but it was progress. Only land owning free men born in Athens could vote this. This may seem like a small number only being about1/5 of the population but it was better than a king.

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