Democracy in Ancient Greece Eddie Witten The Greeks were very advanced for their time. They realized that they need a new form of government and they were able to invent the first democratic government in the world. The democracy that the Greeks came up with was based on two important factors. The first one was the population growth in Athens grew at a very fast rate. The second was the advocating of political‚ economic‚ and legal equality for all which some male citizens remembered from the
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It is really fascinating to watch the movie 300‚ where King Leonidas and his army of 30 brave Spartans battled the Persian King Xerxes and his army of 300‚000. This would come as a surprise to all that a battle of such a magnitude had also occurred in our country however not known to most of us. Known as the Battle of Saragarhi‚ it really is moment of pride for India but sadly this tale of heroic action and sacrifice is hardly recorded in the books of Indian History as it was fought on the behalf
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In 2000‚ American military historian Victor Davis Hanson wrote that “any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena‚ victory is assured.” Beyond idolizing Western civilization’s military performance throughout history‚ Hanson’s statement raises several questions about the development of this particular approach to warfare and its various consequences and implications at local and global scales. This evolutionary process traces back to Ancient Greece
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In 360 B.C.‚ where an ancient Greek philosopher Plato mentioned about the cataclysmic destruction of an ancient civilization dated 9000 B.C. It is the Atlantis‚ an island of great civilization‚ larger the Libya and Asia combined together which sunk into the depth of the sea in just one night. The question is whether this is just a myth or it really existed? The story was taken from Plato’s dialogues‚ Timaeus and Cristias‚ which the latter was never completed due to unknown reason and thus had created
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Herodotus in the The Histories‚ Book V claims“There is nothing in the whole world so unjust‚ nothing so bloody‚ as a tyranny” Greece‚ in 500BC was under the rule of one such tyrant‚ Pisistratus.In order to stay in power‚ tyrants of ancient greece created a prosperous society. Tyrants created a prosperous society by establishing worldly order‚ redistributing power to the middle class and creating a unified society. To start‚ Tyrants in Athens creating relations with other city states to maintain a
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Thucydide rightfully finds fault with Athen’s inability to represent facts and it’s tendency to act based on disillusioned ideology on an overarching political scale. He does not make claims of political corruption or voter fraud like scandals of the modern day do. He doesn’t view the notion of voting as flawed within itself; he does however attribute problems to the mindsets of Athenian citizens as well as on the athenian statesmen. From reading I would describe Athenian politics at this time as
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Athenian democracy originated and formed from the three definitions of "Demos". First of all‚ Demos is the Greek word for "village"‚ but the Greeks also used this word to translate as "People" and "Assembly". Initially‚ Demos means "Village" because it refers to the first step of democracy. The Athenians had a voting district‚ it was referred to as the "deme" and administrated the Assembly List. In order to qualify for the Assembly list‚ 18 year old males would have to prove to a political official
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The Greco-Persian Wars was a series of conflicts between several Greek city-states and the Persian Empire that lasted roughly half a decade from 500 B.C. until 448 B.C. Some of the most distinguished conflicts know to this day are Marathon‚ Thermopylae‚ Salamis and Platea. Although despite the superior number and imperial resources the Persians were defeated resulting in a Greek triumph. In this essay I will be discussing the key factors which contributed to the defeat of the Persian Empire such
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The Parthenon in Athens Greece was built from 447 BCE- 438 BCE‚ the sculptures continuing to be worked on for an additional six years after. The building of the Parthenon was possible because of the embezzlement of Delos‚ a small city that allied with Athens during the war. After the war was ended‚ Athens had control of Delo’s treasury‚ and choose to use it to rebuild the temple that the Persians had burnt down. They had vowed to not rebuild the temple until after the Persians had been defeated
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Cyrus the great who was the Emperor of Persian at the time invaded Greece and conquered a wealth Greek settlement called Ionia in 546 B.C.E. The smaller Greek city-states had much less land and far fewer people than Persia. The Persians took their farm land and forced the Ionians to pay the Persians a tax and serve in the Persian army. The Greeks there were encouraged to rebel by the Greeks and Athens. In the 490’s B.C.E‚ Darius who was the son of Cyrus the great‚ decided to invade the Athens as
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