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What are the similarities between Athenian and Australian government?
In Australia and Athens you have to be a citizen over 18 to vote. They also both had a structured Government where there is a political assembly, law makers, the people who put the laws into practice and the people who asses the laws. All of these groups (law makers etc.) are one of the greatest ideas and biggest influences to today's modern democracy. Another great similarity is that any one can express their opinion in a political assembly/meeting. In Australia and Athens you have to be over 18 to join politics.
What form of government was born in the ancient Greek culture?
Ancient Athens is known for having a direct democracy, which is when the people directly vote on the laws. There are no representatives, the people meet together and run the government themselves.
How long did an torch relay race last in ancient Greece?
A marathon was 26 miles in Ancient Greece. This is because Philippides was given the task to run from Athens to Sparta to deliver important information. The distance was 26 miles.
What type of government are the Ancient Athenians credited with?
with "being the cradle of democracy". That's largely a myth though, invented by British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. He made it up in the 19th century when Greece was fighting for independence from the Ottoman Empire, in order to drum up support for the Greek cause with the world powers of the time, Great Britain and France. Very effective it was, too: Britain and France started to support Greece and finally forced the Turks to grant Greece its independence. As to the 'cradle' thing: the Greek city-States (including Athens) for almost all its existence were ruled as a Oligarchy, so run by a small group of powerful families.
Did tyrants develop democracy in Greece?
Tyrants usually preceded democracy. They were appointed in various cities by popular will to get rid of the aristocratic cliques and run a city-state to the general benefit of the people rather than the vested interested of a few. A tyrant had to maintain a bodyguard to protect himself from the aristocrats, and to hire them had to impose a tax on the people, which eventually made the tyrant as unpopular as the aristocrats had been. So the cities progressively expelled the tyrants and some tried the experiment with democracy - with mixed success. Failures with democracy resulted in some cases in a return to aristocrats, monarchs or tyrants to sort out the mess. Most cities then turned to a compromise of a form of limited democracy where the magistrates allowed the people to vote yes or no on issues they put before them.
