Greek Democracy In Ancient Civilizations

The democracy in ancient civilizations were diverse from each other, they created their own systems of democracy according to the way their ancestors already lived as, and with time some systems were influences gather from other civilizations. Each civilization had different ideas on how to govern their country and its people. The majority of civilizations had an indirect civilization, a system in which the people that have power in terms of social statues control the ones that don’t. Moreover, the similarities and differences of each civilizations was in their democracy system, although they we civilizations that don’t have any relation with each other at all there are still some things that they have in common. Therefore, Greek democracy

The Greek democracy in Athens saw slavery as a free system of slavery however; the people believed that if a man mistreated a slave then that person did inhumane actions. Therefore, the people believed that regardless of the person being a slave they shouldn’t be mistreated. Moreover, when we compare to another civilization such as ancient Egypt the system of slavery was that the slaves were the people of low status and they were owned. For instance, the people that worked to build the pyramids, they were the ones who were brought in to work from other villages and they worked for the pharaoh. Moreover, the difference between these civilizations was the way they treated their slaves, for Egyptians hurting a slave was accepted, they punished Egyptian slaves when necessary, but for Greek that was not right. The similarity aspect between Egypt and Athens was that women’s treatment was similar to each other. In Athens women were in poor positions, in Egypt as well. For instance, the Queen Hatshepsut of the 18th dynasty of Egypt was thought of from others to be someone that is not fitted to have her position as King because of her gender, and others thought that she affected the divine order and she had to be thrown out of her position. These is one similarity between Egyptian and Athens’s

In a Greek democracy the whole populations of Athens could govern their country at least once. Everybody was a leader; everyone had the choice to say something on how things should be. However, in an ancient civilization such as America there is only one ruler even though the ruler changes for certain years, the people who are powerful and who are elected by the community, were the ones who were in charge. America has an indirect democracy; meaning the community is ruled by one person. The similarity is that these civilizations have a ruler who is to be depended on, but the difference is that in Athens everyone had the opportunity to be such ruler, but in America only the person that has social power can be the