Greece 508 BC

Agora was a place where people meet to have meetings like a town hall or a town square. Arete is the goddess of valor and excallence. Polis means city in Greek. The year 508 BC the celithens grants full rights to all free men of Athens. Socrates was a famous philosopher who layed the foundation for modern western philosophy. The death of Socrates was a forced suicide, Hemlock poisoning. Socrates method was not to give answers but to give questions. Idiots in Greece were people not interersted in polotics.

http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Arete.html

http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Socrates/

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=how%20did%20socrates%20die

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/socratic-teaching/606

http://www.omgfacts.com/Language/The-word-Idiot-has-a-completely-differen/47661#rS4xJXG8rQy5MFPT.99