Today in the Western civilizations they use a form of government called democracy. (Doc 3) There is a fragment from Pericles’ Funeral Oration. It describes Athens’ governmental plan. A system of government called democracy, where…
The Romans began a republic which had a 2 consuls, a senate, assemblies, and officials. The consuls were similar to modern day presidents but stayed in office for only a year. The Senate led religious events and foreign policy. It also was in control of the revenue. Roman senate consisted of the wealthy men. The assemblies were created so the people other than the wealthy could have their say in the government. However the people in the assemblies had to be full citizen males, meaning no foreigners or slaves. Roman republic officials did have decent authority but there laws were made to ensure they did not get too much power, leaving more of it to the wealthy. Rome was also centralized, because of its location and saw many migrations and invasions, from Po River people and those in Sicily. At 44 B.C. Rome became an empire, led by an emperor, with senators, advisers, and of course the massive army. Over time, the Roman army became more and more powerful. When Romans would conquer and expand they would normally devastate that area. Eventually, Rome became a military monarchy. Rome then split its empire in two, having a emperor in the west, and another in the east.…
Rome: “republic” based on citizenship of free men; citizenship ensured loyalty to the state and brought taxes into the state treasury; emperor-dictators had to support the idea of the republic and pretend to follow what the Senate, council of elder wealthy men, decreed. Development of bureaucracy helped run empire.…
In the ancient times, many civilizations rose and fell, never being successful for the extent of time needed to be called the most successful. Rome, however, is a civilization that has come very close, to this goal. Likewise, Greece has also been a very thriving group of people. Obviously, Rome and Greece have been rivals forever.As they are examined all the time, their distinct tendencies reveal their true nature. Having similarities that have allowed them to survive in a harsh world, they each have their individual diversities, that have made them unique over time as well.…
The kind of government that Ancient Greece had was democracy, wherein everyone is given a chance to be heard and “the administration is in the hands of the many and not the few” (Reilly 91). This gave its citizens to have a say on the events and decisions that occur in the city. It is also a form of government where “aristocrats [were] stripped of all their powers except for certain judicial functions” (Bowra 93). Anyone was capable of being part of the government regardless of their job or their state and each part of Ancient Greece had their representatives to ensure that each part able to contribute and lead. This had a significant part to its rise to power because this form of government was able to develop a trust among its people and it was used as a means of being able to communicate effectively among the people of Ancient Greece.…
This resulted in a hybrid system, where if you consider the livelihood of the state, and the happiness of its citizens to be the benchmark of what is good, than Rome would be the best state. Polybius considered it the best state because “the strength which is developed by the State is so extraordinary, that everything required is unfailingly carried out by the eager rivalry shown by all classes to devote their whole minds to the need of the hour, and to secure that any determination come to should not fail for want of promptitude;” (Polybius, 1889) The qualities that he describes as good, come down to the drive and confidence of the Roman citizens. As a result of drive and confidence you get successful men that achieve happiness through the acquisition of material wealth. To the Roman man, they strive all their life to achieve happiness which commonly comes through material wealth. This is somewhat common to Athens, but nowhere near the same qualities as Sparta. Although there are differences between the Roman idea of success and the Athenians’. The Athenians, although they used money would not judge each other on the basis of monetary wealth. So in the Athenians eye, the Romans were more likely to get corrupted by monetary wealth. On the contrast because of the government infrastructure, in Rome the state was less likely to get corrupted by sophists, whereas…
In 507 B.C. an Athenian leader named Clisthenes introduced political reforms that introduced democracy. Democracy means “rule by the people,” and the citizens vote to decide the rules of their country. The Greeks, especially the Athenians who founded democracy, provided citizenship, public education, and most importantly, freedom of speech. In order for there to be democracy, the citizens must feel safe in expressing their views and in criticizing the government. Even though democracy disappeared from history after the fall of Athens until the 1700s in America, its concept still hasn’t changed from time and it became Greece’s most enduring contributions to the world.…
Like Mesopotamia, Athens might be well known for their system of law and order. Athens saw the beginning of democracy and government like we know it today. In Athens, government now included citizens, not just representatives like in previous systems. For one of the first times in history, regular citizens could play key roles in how their community and government was…
The Ancient Greek and Roman governments were pretty much the very first example of a Democratic government leading our government to become what it is now in the United States. Document A, which was part of a speech given by the Roman general Scipio in which he spoke about the system of the Roman government, he talked about how the constitution that Romans had was not created by an individuals. It also talks about the nobles who acted as representatives of the people and how their choices were not made without the consent of the citizens. This is like our modern government because our constitution was made by a group officials and not just one person, so there were many views, just like the Romans had. Our governments are also run by the representatives who listen to and support the ideas that the citizens have. Today we also have some of the same rights and opinions that the governments had then. Document B, which is a quote from an ancient Greek statesman, Pericles, tells what place the people had to him in the Greek Government when he said, “We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.” What he is trying to say is that it is the job of the citizens to be involved in the government, or they don’t have the right to complain about what the government does. Today, everybody is expected to take part in the politics of our government, even if it is doing something that is as simple as taking the time to vote in the…
Greece and Rome were alike and different when it came to government. The government in Greece was very diverse because every city was its own state. There was monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. Democracy was developed in Athens, and at some point it started spreading to many other cities. Including non-Greek cities like Rome. One of the main ways they were similar was in their form of government. Both Greece and Rome had an assembly, where members were elected by the people. Rome was ruled by two consuls, who ruled for a year or were forced out of office. Greece was ruled by archons, who were elected annually.…
Different from the Greek government the Roman Republic was controlled by the Senate. The Senate Allowed all the laws and kept all the money. The Senate was only ruled by wealthy people called Patricians. Different from the U.S government because we only have one ruler ( the president) and he doesn’t have to be wealthy. At first , kings ruled over Greece and Rome but then citizens formed a democracy. Later on that lead on to city-states . The Roman and Greek empires are both alike and different in ways.…
There are reasons why many of history’s greatest empires have tended to be either oligarchic or monarchial in nature. In observing the development of two of the ancient world’s most prominent models of representative government, the Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic, it can be concluded that when coupled with the political, economic, and social changes that come with expansion, the complications inherent with systems with democratic design prove incapable of running an empire.…
The Ancient Greeks and Romans both began their empires as city-states. While the strange coastlines and the rough terrain of the Greek peninsula isolated the various Greek city-states from one another, the city of Rome was located in the geographic middle of a plain bordered on the east by mountains and on the west by the sea. Therefore, Rome was exposed to the migrations and invasions of people from the river in the north and Sicily in the south. Both empires were ruled by several different leaders. They had differences are existed during different times.…
The Roman society allowed people to live their own lives to their preference without the worry of breaking the law or being thrown out of society. At the same time, they also consisted of an organized Roman Senate that was already inherited making their decisions consistent, but at the same time the citizens were allowed to express opinions through a voting system. Social standings allowed citizens to build up from poverty and become wealthy, rather than not having the freedom of being as powerful as you can. Overall, the Roman system is better than the Athenian system when it comes to citizenship, republican system, and social standings because Roman citizens were provided with more freedom and had fewer…
Lastly let us look at the Greek government which most of us are already familiar with, a democracy. The word democracy comes from the Greek word demos, which means rule of the people. This meant that the citizens (free men) had real power when it came to laws and decisions of the government. The most famous Greek city state that operated as a democracy was Athens. Another definition of demos, is mob rule. This was one of the flaws of a democracy in ancient Greece. Emotions would take over and the people would make irrational decisions based on mob mentality (Cartwright,…