Athens Vs Sparta Democratic Athens 600s United States

Athens Vs. Sparta

Democratic Athens

600’s United States 1776 Athens = 1 st Democracy democracy in history! 1. Ancient Athens

Democracy

Athenian Democracy What’s wrong with this picture? Direct Democracy – government in which 2. Direct Male citizens participate directly rather than male representatives through elected representatives.

Right on Bro! It’s a man’s world you know! Aristotle “The loom is women’s work, not debate. The man is by nature fitter for command than the female, just as an older person is superior to a younger, more immature person. -Aristotle 3. Limited Democracy: Only participate; Limited men could participate not women or slaves.

“We alone regard a man who “Our constitution is called a democracy takes power no interest in hands publicnot affairs, because is in the of a not asbut a harmless but people. as a useless minority of the whole When it is character. ” a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the laws. When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the ability the man possesses. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character. ” -Pericles golden age 4. Pericles – leader during Athens golden age peak (civilization’s peak).