Did Athenian democracy help or hinder (prevent) the development (growth and success) of Athenian civilization

Athenian democracy helped by allowing citizens to participate in government, which wasn't common and led to new ideas about government and social ideas

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

explanation:

(1)representation based on state population (2)all states have equal representation apex