Compare and contrast roman government to the government of ancient greece

Similarities

They were the most powerful democractics.

People were angry that their government had not

been able to solve the many problems facing the Republic. Julius Caesar spoke publicly to the people about these problems, and promised to solve them if he could. The people supported Caeser. He became popular with the people and more powerful.

Roman government led to series of civil wars, and form of government lost out to a kind of monarchy with an emperor at its head. The emperor still maintained the Senate, but they were at his command, and rarely voted for him. By the end of the Pax Romana, democracy was dead in Rome.

Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies, and democracies, and historians still use these same divisions.

Turning point was the Persian wars

Originally ruled by an oligarchy

Greeks

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Originally ruled by republic

Only free adult men were citizens

Both had democratic government

Predisposition to favor the aristocracy

Had more success in creating a centralized government

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Ancient Greek Vs. Ancient Romans

Romans

Both governments fell

Greeks

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Romans

The Romans' women had more freedom then the Greeks' women

Greek society began by the formation of the city state

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austria

hugary

yugoslavia

czechoslovakia