Cyber Day #1 Assignment

So we have been off for a whole week, and we had a Cyber Day on Friday. Here is my essay from that day.

The government in Ancient Greece is different and similar in several ways from our government here in America today. In Ancient Greece, the philosopher Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies, and democracies. There were also aristocracies, which were a form of government that placed power in the hands of a small, privileged, ruling class. However, many city states used governments of their own and many didn't become democracies or tyrannies at all. Most were either a democracy or run by a tyrant. A monarchy is where a king or a queen, someone of a higher power, ruled the government. In Athens this ruler would be called a tyrant. An oligarchy is when the government is run by a small group of people. A democracy is when people, the assembly, the community leads the government, officials and leaders were elected and all citizens have a say. A tyranny is when the leader took their position of power by force. In a democracy, everything was very direct. All citizens voted on all the laws, where the first difference from our government comes in, because we vote for representatives, where in Greece people voted for each individual law. This means Ancient Greece was a democracy, the United States is a republic. Officials in Ancient Greece could be anyone, poor or rich. To vote in Ancient Greece, you had to be a citizen, which meant you had to be a man with completed military training. Government was divided into 3 main parts as well, the Assembly, the Council of 500, and the Courts. Here's another difference between them and our government: our 3 main parts are branches called the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. The Assembly is all the citizens that showed up to vote, the Legislative branch is the Senate and House of Representatives. The Council of 500 looked over the day-to-day running of the government, the Executive branch is the President and all his workers, which do similar work to the Council. The Courts handled lawsuits and trials and included juries, kind of like our Judicial branch which includes the Supreme Court and lower courts. These are the differences and similarities of Ancient Greece government and our government here in the United States today.