Door24 History

How did democracy find its way to America? In 48 BCE, Julius Caesar was the last Roman leader alive after a tumultuous civil war. For most historians, this was the end of the Roman Republic and democracy in the ancient world. For the next several hundred years, Rome would be ruled by a series of emperors before Rome too would collapse ushering in centuries of uncertainty as states rose and fell over the centuries across Europe. On an island off the coast of France that the Romans called Britannia Maximus or Great Britain, a king was stirring up trouble among his people. King John Plantagenet took the English throne in the year 1199. Like the emperors of Rome, King John had absolute power. He did what he pleased, jailed people who disagreed with him, and raised taxes to fight a war against the French. After several years of fighting, France threw the English off the European continent. The English landowning barons who saw most of their wealth taken and wasted by King John raised an army of two thousand