What kind of government did ancient Athens have? Explain...?
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Ancient Athens, for much of its history, had a direct democracy, which however worked much like an oligarchy, because only land-owning male Athenians were full citizens. There was a a small, representative body called a Boule that decided small issues that came up on a day to day basis, but any major issue, such as declarations of war, was put up to a vote of all citizens.
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The Athenian fifth century known as Golden Age, was mainly concentrated on the period of Pericles. The Athenian statesman, who dominated the political scene for forty years, is associated with the cultural activity that produced the great buildings on the Acropolis Hill. \nFind more imfo in site below
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In an autocratic government one person rules with unlimited power. That definition would include dictatorships. \n\nIn a democratic government a majority of people rule. Examples are New England town meetings, and the ancient Greek city states, where the citizens met together to decide on laws.\n \nIn a representative democracy, such as the U.S., the people elect representatives to make the laws that govern the citizens
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Its a form of government, there are monarchies where you have Kind and Queen, Republic, Oligarchies, Democracy like the USA, Socialist, Communist like China, Anarchies, Fundmentalist where supreme religious leader rule.
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which Pericles are you talking about? The play by Shakespeare or Pericles (ca. 495 BC-429 BC, Greek : Περικλῆς) was an influential and important leader of Athens?\n\nhere's the link to the info anyway.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%2C_Prince_of_Tyre\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles
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The Roman government (in its entire history from founding to fall) was a strange mix of a democracy and a republic. An interesting fact ist that the people of Rome took many of their ideas of government from the Ancient Greeks.\n\nThe Roman state was described as the republic (respublica) and its consuls, or chief magistrates, continued to be appointed even after the establishment of one-man rule under the empire, but in its pure form it lasted only until the beginning of the first century B.C.\n\nAt the creation of the republic, supreme power probably resided with a popular assembly, but early on the Senate became very influential, and the traditional formula, which survived for centuries, was S.P.Q.R. - Senatus Populusque Romanus - the Roman Senate and People acting together.\n\nSince the Ancient Romans did not want one man to make all of the laws, they decided to balance the power of the government between three branches, there was first the executive branch, then the legislative branch, and finally the judicial branch.
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Solon began a series of political reforms that greatly increased citizen participation in Athenian government. He said that he "stood with a strong shield before both parties [the common people and the powerful] and allowed neither to win an unfair victory." His reforms, unfortunately, did not please either the wealthy or the poor. \n\nIn his reform measures, he pleased neither the revolutionaries who wanted the land redistributed nor the landowners who wanted to keep all their property intact. Instead, he instituted the seisachtheia by which he canceled all pledges where a man's freedom had been given as guarantee, freed all debtors from bondage, made it illegal to enslave debtors, and put a limit on the amount of land an individual could own.
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BEFORE IT WAS A KING'S RULE---U KNOW TERRITORY AND STUFF--THE WORD GOVERNMENT ARISES ONLY WHEN THE PEOPLE HAVE A SAY IN SOMETHING HEARD OF DEMOCRACY THAT IS WHAT WE R HAVING NOW
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In Athens had democracy, while Sparta had Oligarchy.\n\nThe education in Athens included philosophy and music /  In Sparta was war-based.\n\nIn Sparta girls were wearing short skirts and were allowed to go to the gyms with the boys / In Athens were not allowed to go out of the house alone, except special occassions and had to wear long dresses.
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All of the Greek City States maintained political, cultural, religious, comercial, and linguistic ties with the cities that founded them, and all were distinctly Greek.  During the time no one would confuse Athens, Sparta, Macedonia, etc... with Persia, the Northern Germanic peoples, the people from Russia, or others and that is why it is unified under the title of Greek Civilization.  \nHope that helps clarify it for you.
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it stems from a time when there were very few educated people, and they needed a way to control the masses. It was essentially the first form of government.
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The history of Greece began with the Stone Age hunters and early farmers. This time period was followed by the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings. Next came the Dark Ages which was a time period characterized by many wars and invasions. Greece was then invaded by the Dorians in approximately 1100 BC. Finally, in the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states. A city-state consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside. \n\n\nChronology\n\n6000 - 2900 BC Neolithic Period \n2900-2000 BC Early Bronze Age \n2000-1400 BC Minoan Age \n1600-1100 BC Mycenaean Age \n1100-750 BC The Dark Ages \n750-500 BC Archaic Period \n500-336 BC Classical Period \n336-146 BC Hellenistic Period \n\n\nhttp://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/resource/schools/chca/othergrades/greecetd/greece1.htm\n--------------\n3000 BC In early Bronze Age settlers from Asia Minor came to the island and fused with earlier Neolithic occupants to develop what is known as the Early Cycladic culture. They worked in marble and stone and traded over sea.\n\n1600 BC During the Late Bronze Age Siphnos was under the cultural andcommercial hegemony of the Minoans of Crete. It is believed that theCretans founded the town named Minoa but remains are as yet undiscovered.\n\nIn 1400 BC the explosion of Santorini destroyed the major centers of Minoan civilization the Mycenaeans became the dominant power in the area and used the islands as relay staions to the near east, replacing many of the indigenous people with Greeks.\n\nAt about 1100 BC during the dark days of the Dorian Invasion, Sifnos was colonized by Ionians from Attika, led by their chieftan Alkenor who became the islands first sovereign.\n\nIn the 8th century BC Greeks began to think of themselves as an ethnic unity. City States began to grow up on the mainland and the islands. Sifnos was under the domination of neighboring Milos. It was then that Gold was discovered on the island and the inhabitants became quite rich, paving their capital in Parian Marble and building a treasury in Delphi. It was said that every year the Sifniots would present a solid golden egg to the God Apollo. One year out of guilt they gave him an egg that was merely plated in Gold. The angry God destroyed their mines. It was also during this period that Samian pirates plundered the island. With the riches they took, they aquired the island of Hydra for their home. When the mines of Sifnos brought forth no more precious metal the island was reduced to poverty.\n\nIn the fifth century BC Sifnos was part of the Greek alliance of City states that defeated the Persians at Marathon, Salamis and Platea. Sifnos became a part of the Delian League and came under the authority of Athens. During the Peleponisian wars, Sifnos managed to stay out of the conflict. In 338 it fell under the influence of Phillip of Macedonia. When Persians captured it in 332 Alexander the Great sent a squadron to expell them. When Alexander died and the empire was devided among his generals, Sifnos fell under the influence of the Ptolemies of Egypt until 146bc when they fell to the Romans.\n\nhttp://www.greektravel.com/sifnos/history.htm
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Their loyalty. The ideology of the Spartans was that the state came first. Each individual Spartan lived and died for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state to the age of sixty.
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Somewhere around 1000 B.C.  I'm not all that up on very early classical Greek or Roman history but that's where the principles for our own government originate.  Rome was a unicameral representative republic before it became an empire.  Greece was closer to a collection of republican city-states.\n\nTrue democracy at the time, as discussed by Plato, was very close to anarchy.  The problem with true democracy is that a minority is not protected from the majority and has no rights.  It is essentially mob mentality.\n\nThe establishment of a Constitutional Republic such as ours (America's) was a truely revolutionary system at the time, wherein the rights of those in the minority were guaranteed but the policy of the majority would still be imposed.  This is most evident in the advent of a bi-cameral legislature where on one side, even states with tiny populations had an even voice with other states (equal rights for minority/majority), and on the other side the population determined the fate of the nation (majority rules).  To this day, a better system of "democratic rule" that realistically works has not been invented.\n\nSteps in recent years have been taken to nullify this system and place the power into the hands of a select group of individuals.  This is exactly the shift that converted the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Federalism is, of course, the division of sovereignty between two levels of government, viz. state governments and the central government (which is often,somewhat inaccurately, called "the Federal Government"). You should note that Americans basically invented Federalism, and they did so for historical reasons.\n\nYou need to know a bit about the history of the United States up to the points where Federalism was created. Basically, even through the Revolutionary War the United States were a collection of states which were all sovereign, but agreed to work together on a number of things (most importantly, armed opposition to the British) while keeping most powers to themselves. The United States didn't really have a central government, Congress was a committee that helped organize things among the states who could pack up and leave any time they wanted to.\n\nAfter Independence (and during the war), the failures of this weak confederation became very apparent. It was seen that a more powerful central government was needed; one that could tax on its own, raise its own troops, and would have its own bureaucracy (all things that the Continental Congress had to beg the states to provide).\n\nThe loosely organized party called the Federalists, lead by Alexander Hamilton, were heavily in favor of a strong national government that would have pretty much all the authority (see: unitary state). The Anti-Federalists, lead by Thomas Jefferson, wanted only a weak central government. These camps were familiar with history, ancient and modern, and looked at a number of other confederations throughout history, including some of the Greek city states and the Swiss Confederacy. They learned from the problems that other such governments had and beautifully solved many of them by the invention of federalism.\n\nIn this form of government, those matters which states can handle on their own are handled by the individual states. But those things which the individual states can't handle (national defense, diplomacy, interstate commerce, etc) the central government would handle. Thus, instead of handling all problems at the same level of government, you can handle problems at the level best suited for them.\n\nThat is the answer in a nutshell. Very importantly, as for (1) why federalism is important and (2) how it differs from democracy  consider the following analogy and I think that your understanding will be greatly augmented:\n\nNOTE: This great analogy is from commentator JonahGoldberg\nhttp://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200412011600.asp\n\nImagine you've got ten dorms on a campus and a student population divided up into the usual coalitions: stoners, partiers, jocks, and so forth on one side, and study geeks, exchange students and — no offense — nerdy Mennonites on the other. A purely democratic system where all students get to decide dorm policy could result in the tyranny of 51 percent of the students over 49 percent of the students. The party-hardy crowd could pass a policy permitting loud music and keg parties at all hours of the night. Or if the more academically rigorous coalition won, they could ban "fun" of any kind, ever. Similarly, if the administration imposed its own policy from above, you could have a system that makes no one happy.\n\nBut, if you allowed each individual dorm to vote for its own policies, you could have a system where some dorms operate like scholarly monasteries and other dorms are more fun than a pool party at James Caan's house. Theoretically, 100 percent of the students could live the way they want. Maximized human happiness!\n\nThe virtue of a federalist, republican form of government is that the more you push these decisions down to the level where people actually have to live with their consequences, the more likely it is they will be a) involved and interested in the decision-making process, and b) happy with the result. Federalism is also morally superior
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Greece was more powerful in the ancient world. Uniting East and West for the first and only time. There are still Greek speaking tribes in India(albe it only a few thousand) beacause of Alexander the Great. He crossed the Indus river and even founded present day Karachi, in Pakistan which was of course then named Alexandria.\nPersia was decimated by the Greeks and Greek soldiers took Persian wifes to spread the Greek culture. Another Greek city is Marsala, presently in France and known as Marsaille. Tactically they were brilliant and ***The Battle of Salamis was a testament to intelligence and tactics of the Acient Greeks***please look this up as it's a great account of a historical sea battle of the where the Persian Fleet in record numbers was decimated by the vastly inferior Greeks in terms of numbers and weaponry/ships.\n\nFrom India to France, no empire spread as far or ever will again.\nCrossing so much land on foot and conquering it all then succumbing to either poisoning or an illness. \n\nYour last three lines say it all...they had it all and the ancient greeks challenged, took it, burned the capital, and were accepted when they conquered generally, and made it better and spread their own vision to more of the world and this is evidenced today in numerous ways...it has to be greece easily in this one...\n\negypt vs greece would have been fairer...\n\n***additional - just read your additional comments - very good lol...