The oldest person in the world today is Kane Tanaka at the age of 118 years. That's her when 20 in 1923. The USA is more than twice as old, for today we celebrate our 245th birthday. Mind you, this is not particularly elderly, for the top six are: #1 Egypt 8000 years old #2 India 5300 #3 Afghanistan 5000 #4 China 4091 #5 Georgia 3700 #6 Ethiopia 3000 ( their monarchy lasted more than 700 hundred years until 1974 when Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974) the British monarchy is going strong at 1200 years so is the one in Japan for 2700 years The USA is also not the first democracy. Five thousand years ago Mesopotamia invented written language and had a primitive form of democracy. Some say that around 3000 years ago India actually formed republics which practiced democracy. Greece had that Athens versus Sparta rivalry 2600 years ago...
