Democracy started in ancient Greece – the word comes from two Greek words dêmos ‘(common) people’ and krátos ‘force/might’. Education started in ancient Greece but was limited to ruling class. Water system, public order, public health – oldest known civilizations had it. Babylon ...
Why did New Sweden fail? Why did the Populist Movement fail? Why did the Taisho Democracy fail? Why was the leadership of the Weimar Republic so weak? Why wasn't Nazi Germany a socialist nation? Why was totalitarianism popular in Italy before WWII? Why did Germany lose WW2? Why did Russi...
Plato and Socrates It’s therefore very striking to discover that one of Ancient Greece’s great achievements, Philosophy, was highly suspicious of its other achievement, Democracy. The founding father of Greek Philosophy – Socrates – is portrayed, in the dialogues of Plato, as hugely pessimistic...
Why did Sumerians build ziggurats? Why was the Ancient Egyptian calendar important? Why were Hellenistic cities important? Why were people attracted to Hellenistic mystery cults? Why did democracy start in Greece? Why did Hellenistic culture spread so widely after Alexander's death? Explain why aret...
with no wealth except what he can win in battle. It would break the story if he was also, for example, a vocal proponent of democracy, unless we are given some background for it (maybe he somehow spent part of his life in Iceland?) just like it would break it if water started runn...
These were, in the end, only ways of saying what she wasn’t, that she wasn’t dull. Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reine...
The soil of democracy and the lifeblood of freedom is suffering from contamination. Balance must be restored in order to bring growth and progress. Bitter A bitter flavor is thought to have been a poison alarm, that a food was dangerous to consume. Ya got that right. I have been very ...
A vibrant, fully franchised electorate is the best guarantee to protect our secular Constitution and government. Without a functioning democracy, the wall of separation between state and church cannot be protected or rebuilt. A diverse and fully enfranchised electorate ensures that no single religion,...
After some conflict and the rule of tyrants (especially Pisitratus), overthrown in 510, Cleisthenes led Athens into essentially pure democracy [note]. Unlike the Phoenician cities, which had been engaged in commerce for centuries, and where the kings were merchants themselves, the creation of...
No Jew can read the life of Christ in the New Testament and in the writings of Jews like Josephus and not know who they had as a visitor among them at the time – a man who did wonders –“no man ever spake like this man”. Therefore America needs to know that all Jews have to...