500 years ago, this Greek city-state—or “polis”—took a radical leap: citizens—ordinary people, not kings or aristocrats—would govern their society. This was democracy, but democracy with a direct twist: one wherecitizens wereexpected...
Athens’ demokratia, which lasted until 322 B.C., is one of the earliest known examples of democracy; and although recent scholarship has complicated the Eurocentric view that it was the first democracy, this ancient political system was extremely influential in the Mediterranean region. It inspired...
How did Athenian democracy develop? How did Athenian democracy change over time? How did voting work in Athenian democracy? How was philosophy used in Athenian democracy? How was democracy practiced in Ancient Greece? How did Solon affect Athenian democracy?
How did Greek theatre influence democracy? How was ancient Greek drama performed? Where were Greek theaters built? How did religion influence Greek theatre? How was Roman theatre similar to Greek theatre? Where did ancient Greek theatre begin?
Copy warm up notes: Greece’s geography made it hard to communicate with one another. As the population grew, the need for trade also grew. How did the idea of democracy evolve in ancient Greece? Over the next few days, we will learn about 4 different types of government and...
"Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence ... Ignorance ... lends itself to manipulation by the forces that mold public opinion." Public opinion in ancient Gre...
2011. "How Tyranny Paved the Way to Wealth and Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece," working paper, Montana State University and Clemson University.Fleck, Robert K., and F. Andrew Hanssen. 2013a. "How Tyranny Paved the Way to Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient...
In History, some participants highlighted how they promoted values of democracy when learning about the suffrage movement. History also provided an opportunity to teach children how to recognize power and hierarchy when learning about the ancient Egyptians or slavery, or values of hedonism, security, ...
The numbers of migrants trying to cross from the Libya on the coast of north Africa to one of the EU's southern nations is increasing. Europe's impoverished southern nations can't cope. And in the better off nations of northern Europe immigration is a to
emerge, the creditors were called big men, absorbing the land of their debtors. If rulers would have let that happen, they would have done what oligarchies did in classical Greece and Rome. They would have used their money to take their labor that was working for them and overthrown the ...