1. The Rise of Democratic Ideas The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
 Sydney J. Harris

2. Decision Making Autocratic or Democratic?
Teacher decides there will be a test on Friday
Group of Friends decide on which movie to go to by discussing three possible movies and voting on which one they want to see.
Fast food Manager decides to give workers a dollar per hour raise

3. Two Categories of Government
Democracy – Government by the people / Decisions made by the people
Autocracy - Government by one person (King / Queen / Emperor / Pharaoh)

4. Autocratic Advantages
Efficient
Order
Changes can Happen Quickly

5. Autocratic Disadvantages
Needs a Strong Leader
Decisions may not be interest of everyone
Too much power leads to corruption

6. Democratic Advantages
Everyone has a say
Corruption more difficult
Power is spread

7. Democratic Disadvantages
Messy, takes time
Sometimes hard to make difficult decisions
Need an Educated Citizenry

8. Autocratic forms of Government
Theocracy
Rule by Religion
Leader: The Priest or Main Religious Figure
Examples: Ancient Egypt, Modern Iran, Vatican City
Monarchy
Rule by a single leader, typically claims Divine Right

9. Autocratic forms of Government (cont.)
Tyranny
oppressive power exerted by government
Oligarchy
Rule by a few individuals
Aristocracy
Rule by the Wealthy

10. Democratic forms of Government
Direct Democracy
Rule by the masses/people
No Leader All Decisions made by the community
Created in ancient Athens
True Democracies only work in small groups
Republic
Rule by People’s Representative
Created in Ancient Rome
Senator = Representative
U.S. is a democratic republic: explain what this means?

11. Democratic forms of Government (cont.)
Parliamentary System
executive is constitutionally answerable to the parliament.
Consists of chambers, or houses elected by people
Constitutional Monarchy
a monarchy governed according to a constitution

12. Total Lack of Government (State of Nature)
Anarchy
Total Lack of Government (State of Nature)
No Rules, No Leaders

13. Monty Python & the Holy Grail

14. Wrap-Up Activity: Spectrum
After complete, create a spectrum that incorporates all of the different governments that were discussed in class today. They should range from Direct Democracy to Tyranny/ Dictatorship.
Include a brief one sentence description of the government.
Tyranny
Direct Democracy

15. Athenian democracy

16. Athens Builds a Limited Democracy
Greek civilization began about 2000 BC.
Isolation => self government, basic political unit in Greece.
Athens= most powerful city-state to emerge
Monarchy until 683 BC, => Aristocracy- a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility.
Assemblies elect 3 nobles to rule city-states.
Citizens- adult male residents, granted certain rights and responsibilities

17. The Reforms of Solon
Farmers in debt sold crops, land then themselves into slavery => political and economic crisis.
Solon outlaws slavery based on debt and cancels the farmers debts, prevents civil war.
Solon establishes 4 classes of citizen based on wealth rather than heredity.
Top 3 classes could hold office, lower class could still vote in the assembly.

18. Solon/Solon and King Croesus.

19. The Reforms of Solon (cont.)
Athens still a limited democracy ruled by the nobility.
Only 1/10 of population were citizens and eligible to participate.
No citizenship for women, slaves, and foreign residents.
Creates a fairer code of laws and the right of citizens to bring charges against wrongdoers.

20. The Reforms of Cleisthenes
Conflicts continued between landowners and farmers.
New leaders appealed to the poorer masses and gained power by giving land, voting rights and citizenship to them.
Cleisthenes reorganized the assembly making Athens closer to a full democracy.
Council members chosen by lot, or randomly to allow all citizens the opportunity to participate.
Cleisthenes= founder of democracy in Athens

21. Cliesthenese

22. Changes in Greek Democracy
The Greeks defeat the attacking Persian empire => new sense of confidence and freedom.
Athens comes out as the strongest city state and heads the Delian League, an alliance of 140 city states.

23. Pericles Strengthens Democracy
The Golden Age of Greece
Jurors paid => allows for poorer citizens to take part.
direct democracy- a government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives.
“Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.”

24. Pericles Strengthens Democracy (cont.)
Golden Age < 50 years.
Athens and Sparta fight = Peloponnesian War (remember reading Ulysses in 7th grade?)
Athens is defeated, Delian League disbanded, Greece weakened.
King Philip II of Macedonia invades Greece => end of Greek democracy.
Philip and his son Alexander the Great rule the Greeks by monarchy.

25. SHEG Activity: Athenian Democracy
You and your partner (assigned by Mr. West) will be reading and analyzing primary sources from the time of Athenian Democracy
As you are analyzing your documents with your partner, answer the guiding questions provided in complete sentences.
We will be working with these documents for multiple periods, when excused at the end of class. Place documents on front table and take guiding questions home with you.

26. Greek Philosophers

27. Greek Philosophers Search for Truth
Great thinkers used logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and morality.
Philosophers- lovers of wisdom, seekers of truth
2 main assumptions:
The universe is put together in an orderly way and is subject to absolute and unchanging laws
People can understand these laws through logic and reason.

28. Socrates examine most closely held beliefs
Use question and answer approach= Socratic Method
Teacher of Plato
Found guilty of not recognizing the gods recognized by the state and corrupting the youth.
Forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock poison.
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David (1787)

29. Plato Author of The Republic
A perfect society would be governed by the wisest not the richest or most powerful.
Created a private academy of learning that focused on posing problems for others to solve.

30. Aristotle Student of Plato Author of Politics
Man is by nature a political animal; it is his nature to live in a state.
Create the Lyceum, a school to rival Plato’s academy.
Voluntary associations, speakers to lecture and debate current topics.

31. In the center of the painting are Aristotle and Plato, Aristotle's hand level to the Earth symbolizing his realism view of Nature; Plato's hand pointed towards the heaven symbolizing the mystical nature to his view of the Universe.

32. Greek Contributions to Democracy
Greeks set up standards or politics and philosophy.
Use natural laws, not superstition to explain the world.
Did not want an authoritative leader so democracy was created.
Citizens actively participate
First to use three branches of government
Legislative (law making), Executive (law enforcing), and Judicial ( law disputing)

33. ‘School of Athens’ by Raphael All the major philosophers of Hellenistic Culture are pictured in this painting.