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A 3 page research paper that discusses how ideas, concepts and inventions of the ancient world are still evident in society today. The writer particularly focuses on Greek democracy and the structure of governance in the Roman Republic. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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"basic tools of agriculture," that is, the ax, hoe and plow, were all invented by ancient Egyptians (Janick). By the time of the New Kingdom, metal plowshares were added to
the basic design and plows were drawn by oxen (Janick). Similarly, other basic ideas and inventions filtered from the Near East and into Europe as the centuries progressed. The ancient
Babylonian civilization, located in the Mesopotamian region, invented a hexasegimal (base 60) system of mathematics that is so extremely functional that, today, 4000 years later, "we still use it every
day-whenever we tell time or refer to degrees of a circle" (Gill). Perhaps the most prominent and omnipresent evidence of the ideas of the ancient world in the US today
is the fact that the American form of government is based on both ancient Greek and Roman ideas: the concept of democracy from the Greeks and the concept of a
republic from the Romans. The ancient Greek word "demokratia" means, literally, "people-power" (Cartledge). While there were other Greek cities that had democratic governance, the most famous example is Athens.
It was as a democracy that Athens successful resisted Persian invasion (Cartledge). Greek leaders Ephialtes and Pericles instituted political reforms that empowered even the poorest sections of their society and
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes," laying the foundations for "western rational and critical thought"
(Cartledge). But while the concept of a democracy dates back to ancient Greece, US democracy differs from this ancient template. In ancient Athens, all citizens voted on every issue, whereas
the US uses representative democracy within a structure of government that can be traced to the Roman Republic. While the Romans never adhered to a written constitution, their governmental
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