Similarities
They were the most powerful democractics.
People were angry that their government had not
been able to solve the many problems facing the Republic. Julius Caesar spoke publicly to the people about these problems, and promised to solve them if he could. The people supported Caeser. He became popular with the people and more powerful.
Roman government led to series of civil wars, and form of government lost out to a kind of monarchy with an emperor at its head. The emperor still maintained the Senate, but they were at his command, and rarely voted for him. By the end of the Pax Romana, democracy was dead in Rome.
Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies, and democracies, and historians still use these same divisions.
Turning point was the Persian wars
Originally ruled by an oligarchy
Greeks
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Originally ruled by republic
Only free adult men were citizens
Both had democratic government
Predisposition to favor the aristocracy
Had more success in creating a centralized government
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Ancient Greek Vs. Ancient Romans
Romans
Both governments fell
Greeks
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Romans
The Romans' women had more freedom then the Greeks' women
Greek society began by the formation of the city state
