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.
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.
Athens is often regarded as having the best-run government in ancient Greece, particularly during the 5th century BCE, known as the Golden Age. It developed a system of direct democracy where citizens actively participated in decision-making. This governance model allowed for innovation in arts, philosophy, and science, contributing to its legacy as a cultural and intellectual hub. However, it's important to note that this democracy was limited, excluding women, slaves, and non-citizens from participation.
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.
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.
Ancient Greece was a democracy
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The magistrates appointed to run the courts.
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.
anyone who felt thay had the strangth to run, fight, or restale
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.
Ancient China was not a republic or a democracy. No one ran for office in the modern sense. Officials were appointed by superior authority.
The Greeks believed that people could use their minds and reason to choose and run good governments.
Athens is often regarded as having the best-run government in ancient Greece, particularly during the 5th century BCE, known as the Golden Age. It developed a system of direct democracy where citizens actively participated in decision-making. This governance model allowed for innovation in arts, philosophy, and science, contributing to its legacy as a cultural and intellectual hub. However, it's important to note that this democracy was limited, excluding women, slaves, and non-citizens from participation.
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.
Greece currently is a parliamentary republic, where citizens vote for political parties to represent them in parliament.The Ancient Greek city-states were most-often ruled by monarchies or oligarchies. A monarchy is a government where a king or prince rules over the city, while an oligarchy is a government where several nobles or wealthy landowners run the country, but there is no "supreme" leader. Athens was a particular and unique case in that it had direct democracy or citizen-led rule for a part of its time.
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