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Submitted by orhun on March 24, 2008
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SEEDS OF DEMOCRACY
Ancient Greek culture is very important for the humankind. Nowadays, we see that our science and math knowledge goes back to Ancient Greek, and our art, literature and philosophy are coming from the Ancient Greek culture too. However, the most important things which are coming to us from Ancient Greek culture are the idea and the concept of democracy, the value of an invidual in a society and the toleration of opposite ideas to improve the society. These most important things emerged in the Ancient Greek culture in a city state, polis.
In the Dark Age of the Ancient Greece there were lots of bad things which destroy and hinder the Ancient Greek culture. At the end of this bad age there were radical changes like increase in population and shift from herding to agriculture. However, because Greece had a very rough terrain, which included very high mountains, agriculture wasn’t producing enough food for increasing population. Therefore they began trading with each other. As a result of this, marketplaces grew up in Greek villages and people came together into well defended and strengthened centers. And these lead to establish a new political and social system, polis.
A Greek polis was the central of political, social, religious and cultural life in Ancient Greece. Every city state (polis) was a small walled area which had an acropolis, some temples, a gymnasium and an agora. Around this small walled area there were some farmlands. And the most important thing that these city states had were citizens which lived in these small walled areas. These city states protected their citizens against some external forces like other cities and foreign intruders. Moreover, every polis developed independently, this means that every polis had its own policy, rules, thoughts and even calendars.
There are two typical types of governments(oligarchy and democracy) which used in the Ancient Greece by the city-states, this...
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