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How did the first democracy die?

1721.48 - 1740.406 Lawrence Sammons II

They overspent, and that overspending led to more military action. Because why? The empire is generating some of this money that's being used to pay people, yeah, and to build the buildings and to pay people to serve on juries. The Athenians quite well understood that sailing out and attacking other Greeks and imposing tribute payments on them was paying them, right?

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