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Greek and Roman are bedrock of the classical culture of Western civilization.

From Greece we inherited a political system and governing model called democracy which flourished in Athens many centuries before our era. The great Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle left us their thinking and philosophy that are the first major works on society and politics, ethics, morality, government. Greek mythology, adopted by the Romans, provided stories and enduring symbols in Western cultures, as well as magnificent inspiration for some of the best Western art and literature. Greek comedy and tragedy are the first major heights of world theater, and Homer gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey. Greek and Roman architecture still serve as models for many of our modern buildings. Thanks to Herodotus, the first world historian, we know about the Medic Wars and the conquests of Alexander the Great.

Rome inherited us also great thinkers, writers, speakers, the art of oratory. From Roman governing system, we have inherited an institution that still exists today in modern democracies: the Senate. Latin , the Roman people´s language, was adopted as the official language of the Catholic Church and of scholars for many centuries; it is the mother of contemporary Romanic languages such as French, Italian and Spanish.

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The Greeks and the Romans were two of the first societies to use government systems that allowed citizen participation. The Greeks used a direct democracy, or a pure democracy, to govern. All free adult male citizens were required to participate in the lawmaking assembly. Each person had a vote. The Greeks emphasized that the law applied to all people, no matter how much money they acquired or what their rank was. The Romans shared some ideas with the Greeks, but they had their own way of governing their empire. The Romans used a system known as a republic. The populace elected representatives to work in the Senate and four assemblies. Unlike the Greeks, the Romans voted in groups instead of as individuals, and only the wealthy upper-class citizens were allowed to hold government positions. Even with their differences, both government systems played a large role in influencing the United States government that exists today.

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