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“In Greece democracy meant ‘Power of the people,’ although women couldn't vote or run for office. Citizens who were 18 and male could be council members, judges or government officials. All three jobs lasted only one year and not one single person got paid for their services! The assembly would meet at the Acropolis four days every month.” (www.fcps.k12.va.us/OakViewES/harris/96-97/agespages/greece/government.html)
Rome had a republic, which was very similar to that of Ancient Greece. Cons
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Out of all of Socrates’ teachings I find important: “A good diplomat makes friends instead of enemies, and success in politics, stops civil strife and creates a spirit of unity. Socrates, the “wisest man in Athens” was an intelligent teacher, who taught for free, he studied science, and liked to pull people off there “high horse” Greek set the example of government for many generations and civilizations to come. Without the Greek civilization, many things would not exist today as they do. idering the fact that Rome was in my opinion a copy of Greece, Roman architecture is very much like that of Greece. That was because the Greeks strived for arête excellence and virtue.
The Greeks excelled at government, they excelled at art, architecture and philosophy, they also excelled at education and science. The Greeks seem also to have derived much of their philosophical theology from the Egyptians as well. It is obvious that the Romans got the idea for their religion from the Greeks.
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