Eli Winker Dr Knickman SST150 9 February 2023 Comparing Classical Greece and Han China In the Classical Age, the Han and Greek empires differed in many ways, most notably in their government ideas and the power of one individual in a government. The classical Greeks used democracy as their primary form of government and citizens all had a role in the government. The Han empire used a monarchy with an emperor at the head and everyone else in the empire had little to no power. Although the Classical Greeks and Chinese shared similar ideas about the role of women in society, their ideas about government and the role of an individual in government were more different than similar because the Greeks believed in more of a democratic government rather
Though, most of the power resided in the individual states, unlike today where we have one government that watched over all the states, and there are representatives of each state that worked with the
America had tried to craft a decentralized government but in it’s failure, the leaders switched to what they knew and created a very strong central government, much like
Most of the population were poor farmers, that had no idea what was happening within the country. Obviously this system was not the best. Eventually countries found a more efficient way of running their countries. A single ruler began to consolidate the power from the city-states and make a more uniform government for the country. The ways these absolute monarchs consolidated and increased their powers were similar in the 1600s and 1700s, by decreasing the nobles’ powers, increasing military, and increasing bureaucracy.
The Ancient Roman government kept its government officials from becoming dictators. The Roman Republic had three parts. Most of the government officials had a term limit. The American Democracy has three branches that divide powers. The different branches of government have different powers.
8. In the post-classical era, there were new forms of governance that emerged. Two new forms of governance that emerged were caliphate and papacy. Caliphate basically put political and religious government ideas into one form of governance.
Battles and wars slaughter civilians as each individual continues the strife with their monarch in attempt to obtain their own rights and freedoms. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, an absolute monarchy had always been the primary form of government. However, trying to limit the royal power, a new type of government was introduced known as a democracy. In a democracy, every citizen would contribute to the decisions that affect their country. The two governments vastly differ, causing tension to arise between them, in terms of effectiveness.
Lao-Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a god in Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. Niccolò Machiavelli was a writer of the Renaissance period. They are both philosophers that have completely different perspective on how a country should run and how the leaders should act. While both philosophers’ writing can be very useful to the government in some ways.
It is stated in the encyclopedia that, “natural reason alone has established among men, or to put it better, which god has engraved them in our hearts [and] neither law nor custom can contrive it (Doc 1). After these two theories of government people started to combat their government. For example, Voltaire targeted the government through the use of humor and insulted the government. Rousseau who believed there should be a government that is free in the state of nature but civilized and formed by the people. With all of these ideas of government made, they were bound to be applied to a country to
His influence on the world has lasting impacts even today, though it has been over two thousand years since he lived. Qin Shi Huang-Di was a cruel but effective
Over the past few weeks we've analyzed many different forms of government and philosophers from Western Civilization. It's interesting to see all the different ideas proposed, and by analyzing different forms of government from a normative standpoint, I'm beginning to gather my own opinions regarding the most effective form of government. I'm also beginning to notice different ideas from different philosophers intertwined with our government today. All of these new ideas and concepts are challenging my original perspective on our current government, and I actually find myself questioning whether or our countries leaders are making the best decisions, and what we can do to "Make America Great Again", a famous slogan of our current president
At the start of the early-modern period of European history, feudalism was dying, and countries looked to strong, centralized governments for leadership. The popular political theory to address this new development was absolutism. Absolute monarchs reduced the power of nobles in order to consolidate the nation’s leadership under one banner. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Europe’s political landscape was dominated by this form of government. Monarchy was seen by the early modern Europeans as the best form of government for a variety of reasons.
In order to compare and contrast varying types of government within two or more countries, one must have a clear definition of Government and know the purposes it serves. Therefore, I did some research and I have established that Government is a group that exercises dominant power over a nation, state, society or other body of people. Governments are commonly responsible for constructing and implementing laws, handling money, and defending the general population from external threats, and may have other obligations or privileges. All over the world, there are many different types of government within countries. Each kind has its advantages as well as disadvantages regarding the general well-being of its peoples and economy.
Everyone has a perspective of their own about the government whether it be good or bad. Ancient Greek philosopher Plato and English philosopher John Locke both discuss the topic of government in their literatures. In the Republic by Plato, Plato introduces this concept of a just city. In this city, he believes that the older and wisest person(s) should rule as they are very knowledgeable. Everyone is born innately different according to Plato.
