significant contributions to Western civilization. Greek knowledge was ascendant in philosophy‚ physics‚ chemistry‚ medicine‚ and mathematics for nearly two thousand years. The Romans did not have the Greek temperament for philosophy and science‚ but they had a genius for law and civil administration. The Romans were also great engineers and builders. They invented concrete‚ perfected the arch‚ and constructed roads and bridges that remain in use today. But neither the Greeks nor the Romans had much
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Every nation needs a government. There are three basic types of government: Monarchy‚ Aristocracy‚ and Democracy. The ancient Roman system of government was a mixture of all three‚ consisting of a consul‚ a senate‚ and the people. The consul is characteristic of a monarchy‚ the senate is characteristic of an aristocracy‚ and the people‚ democracy. This paragraph is a good beginning. Remember it is a history paper and for that your reader needs dates to put it into the proper context. The consul
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provincial. He served as an auxiliary in the Roman Army in Macedonia where he then deserted the army and was outlawed‚ captured and sold into slavery. He was then purchased by Lentulus Batiatus and trained at a gladiatorial college in Capua. In 73 BC Spartacus‚ along with 80 other gladiators fled the college to Mount Vesuvius‚ where he was joined by a large number of other slaves who were motivated by his courage to join him and help him fight against the Roman nobility. In the course of two years Spartacus
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and were unstoppable. Though‚ this only came to be through the change from a Roman Republic to the Roman Empire‚ and only one man could change this. Augustus. Augustus was the first Roman Emperor‚ and quite frankly the founder of the Roman Empire. Augustus commanded legions of Roman Soldiers‚ reformed the populous to run more efficiently and started the long reign of Emperors in Rome. Augustus was the sole reason the Roman Empire rose from the ashes of the republic. Augustus was born into an equestrian
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Roman Republic/ Athenian Democracy and the United States Throughout history there have been several government structures that govern the people of the state‚ some ran differently‚ but maybe similar as well. There is a fine line between a democracy and a republic although there are some similarities. In a democracy‚ the citizens are their own form of government‚ all having equal say. In a republic‚ citizens still have high power but use that power to elect representatives to govern the state. I
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…everything is connected BRIEFING PAPERS THE GROWING CONTRIBUTION OF TECHNOLOGY TO DEMOCRACY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION This briefing paper reviews the increasing contribution of technology to democracy and conflict resolution. It examines the consequences of pervasive Information Communications Technology (ICT) and a global networked society engaged in a state of perpetual communication. The requirement for agile decision making from state to individual level and the effects of the democratisation
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government were from Athens and Rome. Rome’s form of government was a Republic while Athens was a democracy. A republic means a government in which citizens elected representatives to rule on their behalf. A republic is quite different from a democracy‚ in which every citizen is expected to play an active role in governing the state. A democracy is ruled by the people. The Athenian Democracy and Roman Republic both had strengths and weakness in how democratic the government was‚ this is shown in their
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OUTLINE THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARXISM TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY Marxism is an ideology based on the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels. Karl Marx who was born in Germany in 1818 was a revolutionary whose ideas on society were the foundation of communism. Under modern capitalism the means of production‚ such as factories‚ land‚ and technology are controlled by a small minority who Marx called the bourgeoisie. Production is carried out by the working class‚ known
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the Romans benefited greatly from contact with such advanced cultures as the Greeks. The Romans did not invent and create most of their greatest discoveries‚ but they took the ideas of many of the cultures they conquered. They took these ideas and used their scholars to make them better and used all the inventions from other cultures to help create one great and huge empire. Rome stimulated and prompts this society by the construction of the Via Egnatia and the installation of Roman merchants
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History Key Assignment #1 Prompt: Compare and contrast Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian influence on democracy considering the role of the individual‚ government‚ and their contributions in a well written essay of 3-4 pages Nowadays‚ democracy is a very prevalent form of government but it wasn’t always this way. Monarchies‚ aristocracies‚ and oligarchies used to be the only main styles of governing‚ until Athens became the first democracy and Rome the first republic. The religions of Judaism and Christianity
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