HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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juries of citizens
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a Council of Elders
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one official religion
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independent city-states
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the choices below is a part of American democracy that comes from ancient Greeks? Juries of citizens. How was ancient Greek democracy different from American democracy today? All citizens voted on every issue.
Detailed explanation-2: -Only free, adult men enjoyed the rights and responsibility of citizenship. Only about 20 percent of the population of Athens were citizens. Women were not citizens and therefore could not vote or have any say in the political process.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following characteristics did ancient Greek democracies have that is shared by modern American democracy? Citizens decided public issues using majority rule.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Greeks pretty much invented modern mathematics, sculpture, philosophy, science and even medicine. And they used some of their new knowledge to make inventions like the water wheel, the alarm clock, the catapult and even, the vending machine!
Detailed explanation-5: -Direct democracy. Representative democracy. Constitutional democracy. Monitory democracy.