Compare And Contrast The Golden Age Of Athens And Rome

The golden ages of Rome and Athens, a period of important benchmarks for the system of citizenship in history. Athens in 430 B.C. went into the golden age, while Rome went to the golden age in 130 B.C., citizenship was honored in both societies, but what makes a citizenship system considered good? A well-constructed citizenship system should contain the best offer to foreigners, citizens participation in government, and organization of citizens in social class, which Rome comes superior in. Foreigners are people that come from another land in order to seek new experiences or another place to settle down. When they come to settle in a land ,they should be offered a citizenship. As Emperor Claudius stated that “What was the ruin of Sparta and Athen, but this that mighty as they were in war, they spurned from them as aliens” as in document C. Because Athens spurned away foreigners, they weren’t able to gain more
People had always been divided into different social classes, which can be based on things from occupation to pay. While Romans did organized it much better, more uniquely, allowing the perfect people to work where they are needed. In Document D, Peter Walsh said that the censors’ ranking, based on wealth, heritage, administrative competence, marital status , and physical and moral fitness. Rome based social ranks by many conditions, Rome had everyone doing the right tasks, Rome taxed everyone appropriately. Just as social classes happened in every society , so too did Athens have one based on occupation. If someone had risen too high in power, then they would of been exiled in order to lower their power according to Diodorus in Document D. Exiling someone for being too powerful is just as absurd, so too it could unknowingly exile a brilliant military general or politician with great plans. With the chance of a brilliant general or a cunning villain to be exiled, it is still not a risk worth