Differences Of Government In Ancient Greece And Rome

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. Both empires had very different forms of governments.
In Greece, they had 3 different types of government: A monarchy ruled by a king, an oligarchy ruled by a small group of elite people, and a democracy ruled by everyone which formed much later. In Rome, they had two types of government as well, a monarchy and a republic. There was a second part of Roman government, the assembly. The assembly was elected by the Romans from the plebeian class. The Assembly had no real power, but if you didn't listen to the assembly they had the power of most of the citizens behind them and could make life very interesting. This had to do with the law and equality of both empires.
The two empires agree that the laws are made by the Assembly and approved by the Senate. These laws, then, are made by people, not gods. The Romans were the first to employ lawyers full-time. Roman law was a revelation in standards and practice. It worked very well over a very large number of territories by employing a very large number of people. The number of Roman laws grew every year, beginning with the Twelve Tables. As the number of laws grew, so did the number of lawyers and judges required to study and interpret those