The Legacy of Ancient Greece How did Ancient Athens influence Western Democracy? Greek City-States Around 2000 BC, the Greeks established cities along the coastline Each city was like its own country (City-States) Most Greek City-States had one of the following types of gov. 1. Monarchy Ruled...
democracy’s major legacies was its influence on the Roman Republic, which lasted until 27 B.C. TheRoman Republictook the idea of direct democracy and amended it to create a representative democracy—a form of government that Europeans and European colonists became interested in several centuries ...
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 ...
A democracy could only get as large as a city, as every citizen had to be present everyday. In contrast, a "republic" could grow larger, as citizens could take care of their families and farms, and send representatives in the...
doi:10.2139/SSRN.1762249Robert K. FleckF. Andrew HanssenJohn E. WalkerFleck, R.K. & J. E. Walker (2010) "How Tyranny Paved the Way to Wealth and Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece". Mimeo.
And at the very end, of course, they did attack Constantinople and loot it, and that basically paved the way for the Ottoman Empire to replace Christianity there. The Roman destruction of Christianity became self-destructive throughout the West, opening it up to invasions further east. But the...
less than some pro athletes earn in a year. Its natural-gas holdings were sold off to a private group; China State Grid, another state-owned company, bought a stake in Greece’s national utility. “Greece had choices, and it did not choose bankruptcy,” says Panagiotis Liargovas, an eco...
The Parthenon was constructed between 447 and 432 B.C.E., a period of artistic and military triumph considered the golden age of ancient Greece. The Athenians had expelled a Persian invasion prior to the temple’s construction, preserving their democracy, and the project became symbolic of the...
always a convenient, seemingly polite excuse for the powerful to take what they wanted. Turner grappled with some of the negative consequences and contradictions of the frontier ethic and how it shaped American democracy. But many of those whom he influenced did not do this; they celebrated i...
Now comes “democracy”. The (m)asses now gets involved in how the state is run. When there was one king the Jews diden’t have to care about the vocabulary. The Jews have been expelled over 130 times over 2.ooo years. The reason is that the non-Jewish elite realised that the Je...