This law shows the flaw of Athens and its democracy based government because it infringed on the freedom of speech that most democracies have. The Assembly was made up of all men that were eligible to serve on the council. The Life in Athens may have been sophisticated and nimble. This made Athens a target to other countries since they thought that Athens was a week country. If Athens had more of a military based government then they wouldn’t have been attacked as many of times and maybe never lost their power in Ancient
Similarities and differences between Athens and Sparta By kirk kanjian In 5th century Greece Spartan and Athenian society was very different in many ways. However, at the same time, the two shared a number of characteristics in common. The differences are what set the two apart, while the things they shared in common are what united them as Greek city-states. Sparta and Athens shared similarities and differences in their systems of government, military focuses, education and rights of women. One of the bigger differences between Sparta and Athens was there systems of government.
Athens was more worried about the comfort and culture during the time of the military battles. The oligarchy in Sparta put a war like attitude as it's first priority and it met the needs of Ancient Greece. Athens did not have the best form of government because it did not give the citizens of Greece more freedom. The Athenian democracy can not be called a true democracy because there was several flaws in the governement and how it worked. Only the
In slow evolution towards democracy, as their trade increased, Athenian craftsmen and merchants had enough money to purchase their own weapons. These armed ordinary people formed the phalanx which made the aristocratic cavalry obsolete. On the other hand, the Spartan constitution reputedly introduced by semi legendary Lycurgus in 600 B.C. to reflect their deep conservatism and made a minimal concession to democracy. Their authority was carefully kept in the hands of the elders.
Compare and Contrast the values, institution, and actions of the city –states of Sparta and Athens. Athens and Sparta are Greece’s most famous city-states. They were both rivals to each other and very powerful. Sparta and Athens were different in social structure, male and female role, cultural values and government. Athens is known for their art, intellect and political influence in the western world.
Mencius answer was that Heaven does not speak but reveals itself by acts and deeds; Heaven sees with the eyes of its people and hears with the ears of its people.(Doc. 6) Heaven selects the emperor; the sole ruler of the empire but he needed people to help aid him rule. Therefore, he appointed governors to each district of the empire and then, in turn, they placed officials at smaller areas. During the Han Dynasty, the government decided to build and expand the bureaucracy. The bureaucrats would have to go through an early form of a civil service exam in order to earn a lawmaking position at stages of government, such as local, regional, and federal.
In this way, Cleisthenes moved Athens from an oligarchy to a democracy. | |Athenian democracy was, by nature, a direct democracy, unlike the modern representative democracy of America. In most | |cases, Athenians did not vote for representatives – but voted directly on the decisions of Athens. Go to war with Sparta – | |they voted. Build a navy – they voted.
There are other ways of running a country and one such is with Dictatorship. This is leadership by one leader or an army. There are no elections. They often rule by force and are not fair. History shows democracy as the best way to run a country as it is with the consent of the people.
Levinson (2006) writes, “the citizens of Athens, the "demos," consisted of a privileged class that excluded women, slaves, farmers, and those who worked by the sweat of their brow,” (p. 1). They also had a difference, Athens had no king, but Sparta had two kings, their educational systems were also different, Sparta adopted the Agoge compulsory education system, while Athens male citizens " studied arithmetic, rhetoric geometry, drawing, and music in the morning and gymnastics in the afternoon," (Farah & Karls, 1999, p. 123), an educational system that encouraged architectural grandeur and democratic
Our form of government is democracy; which comes from the Greek word demokratia (dem-oh-KRAY-te-uh), which means “the rule of the people”. Solon abolished the “Draconian Law”, cancelled all debt, freed landholder and merchants (who had to become slaves under the Draconian law so they could not pay their debt) and established a new code of law. Solon also formed the “Council of Four Hundred” who had to be elected by the citizens (only men were considered citizens). The Council could propose the laws but the citizens had to vote on them. The American Government has many resemblances; specially Congress.