What are the similarities between Athenian and Australian government?

Answer 1

In Australia and Athens you have to be a citizen over 18 to vote.

They also both had a structured Government where there is a political assembly, law makers, the people who put the laws into practice and the people who asses the laws. All of these groups (law makers etc.) are one of the greatest ideas and biggest influences to today's modern democracy.

Another great similarity is that any one can express their opinion in a political assembly/meeting.

In Australia and Athens you have to be over 18 to join politics.

Answer 2

Ancient Greece was a democracy, just as the US is today (however, Ancient Greece was somewhat a direct democracy while the US is a representative democracy, which is a system based off the Romans). The US also has a considerably high Greek and Greek speaking population, as of course, did Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece had, as the US partially does today (on the Pacific Coast), a Mediterranean climate. The Olympics were a sporting event from Ancient Greece and has been modernized, which the US participates and dominates in (specifically the Summer Olympics).

Answer 3

Ancient Greece was comprised of hundreds of independent city-states with a wide range of governmental systems ranging from monarchy through oligarchy to radical direct-democracy. None of these is similar to the US system, which has a representative parliament overlaid by an authoritarian president and his appointee-ministers.

Answer 4

the greek athanians had a republic and the U.S. is supposed to have a republic not a democracy commonly mistaken but that's now how it is run

Answer 5

Coins and torture.