regarded as pessimism‚ but he considered to be realism. Generally people want to maintain a positive self-concept of themselves which causes them to agree with the overly idealistic views of human nature‚ such as that presented by Gandhi. The Athenians held the belief that the three motives for human nature are security‚ honor‚ and self-interest‚ and these cause people to be inherently violent. When there is a breakdown of law and order‚ a state of unprecedented lawlessness occurs and during the
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DBQ: How Democratic were the Greeks? The country of Greece‚ in 507 BC‚ was established with the idea of democracy. It was meant to be ruled by the people with no leader with too much power. Democracy was introduced to have equality before the law. Throughout the history of Greece‚ many relationships and correlations were formed through democracy. Greek Democracy built relationships with the military needs and social class division of Greek City-States. In Greece‚ military needs were drastically
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also God prays for our city. God created us and gave life to us to work corporately to serve our country. Also‚ this speech talked about life after death‚ and they said those people who died for their country‚ they will have better life. People from Athenian respect their families because they died to protect people in Athens. They are the top person in the
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The Athenian Government. Good morning‚ ladies and gentlemen and chairperson. Before I begin‚ I would like to point out some imperfections in the previous speaker’s case. She mentioned that........ (insert first rebuttal point) Also‚ she made the allegation that..... (insert second rebuttal point). Our first speaker praised our wondrous military. I will be continuing my team’s argument that Athens is far superior to Sparta by examining the mindset of the Athenian government. To prove/support my belief
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discussed by the other council‚ and introduced the notion that any citizen could report someone that they think broke a law. Democracy was started in order to have isonomia‚ an ancient Greek term meaning “equality of all.” With only about 10% of the Athenian population being citizens‚ and only some of even those able to hold public office‚ this clearly wasn’t yet achieved‚ and it is nothing like the modern democracies today. Still‚ the concept of the general public being able to participate in their
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both managed the population really well. “Athens’ population was a mere 315‚000 and only 50‚000 out of those 315‚000 could vote or participate in government. Also 50‚000 were free-male non-citizens that were either too young or their parents weren’t Athenian. Plus there were 100‚000 free females and 115‚000 slaves” (Document 2). Citizens were expected to respect the laws of Athens and Athens philosophers were no
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The differences between Classical Athens and Han China were major and distinctive. The background information‚ government‚ values of the individual‚ and art of each society show how differently each empire developed. Within the background information of both Athens and Han China you can automatically notice evident differences between the two. The first document shows the maps of both empires side by side. The Han Empire is isolated and much bigger than Athens’s city-state Attica‚ which is a mere
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confederacy of the Athenians‚ or the elite Spartan military. The combat supremacy of Athens and Sparta was not the only factor. Athens was a mighty empire and wished to expand its control. The Spartans feared Athenian power‚ and they entered hostilities with Athens under the pretext of freeing the Panhellenic people. In a display of strength‚ Athens decided to take Melos. Melos was a mostly neutral city-state‚ but the Athenians believed
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century‚ over such a long period of time‚ threre are still some similarities bewteen the Athenian democracy and our present democracy. Like our modern voting districts‚ the Athenian country was divided into separated units. In both systems citizens had to be registered to vote on laws and public policies. The citizens who are over 18-year-old of the state or country have the rights to vote and make decision. Athenian democracy also had similar body of government which includes the Assembly‚ the Council
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city-states. Since they weren’t united‚ all the city-states had their own version of a government that was unique to each city-state. However‚ most of them came up with a similar democracy that first originated in Athens. Sadly‚ only a few of the first Athenian government writings have made their way to our time. When things moved forward‚ the government of Athens changed a bit
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