... ideas of Greek culture. My look at the similarities between ancient Greece and America will mainly focus on the likeliness of the political systems of ancient Greece and America. My paper will basically state important essential facts about the political and economical system in Greece and how the procedure relates to America's systems. There were five main forms of Government for the ... group consisted of monarchy, chiefdom, tyranny, and the second group contained oligarchy and democracy. Monarchs governed the Minoans and the Mycenaean's. The monarchs only ruled a local territory instea...

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Democracy is thought to have originated in Greece during the first half of the 5th century BC. This revolutionary concept replaced aristocrats, oligarchs, monarchs, and tyrants and allowed a substantial amount of people to directly participate in the political process. Although the basic ideals of our modern system of government are derived from this original form of democracy, there is actually very little ... is the way its citizens are represented. In Athenian democracy, the people were represented directly; this meant that the people of a given city-state would each participate directly...

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Both Sparta and Athens were Greek city-states. Sparta was a strict military ruled city-state where the people established themselves as a military power early. However Athens was more of a political city-state that was more involved with their economical stature than their military forces. Still changes from the Persian wars would change the powers of the city-state and somewhat ... , called helots. Since the helots greatly outnumbered their rulers, Spartans established a strict and brutal system of control. The Spartan government had two kings and a council of elders who advised the monarchs...

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