Compare And Contrast Rome And Athens

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Being a good citizen is like being a good father/mother. Good parents have to take care of their child like feeding and making sure they're safe and healthy good education and responsibility and a lot more. Athens and Rome was the first countries to have this idea. About 590 BCE. They also had citizenship well they had the idea of it so they did they actually did it in many way. Rome had about 45,000A,000 people, perhaps 15 percent of the world’s population.
Rome citizenship was more to get other than Athens who were very very strict about there’s.

In Rome If parents were married in certain areas of the Roman Empire to be a citizen.
Females were citizens to, but they had limited rights. Could own property, but could not vote or
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Athen are very unorganized with there Athenian Assembly everyone has a chance to talk but, they never too level to do that because it always super loud and very unorganized. I don’t Athens have any respect for their people. This why I think Rome is way better than Athens(Doc A,B,E).

United States is more like Rome because.They allow a lot of people to be a citizen
Including like out of the country people and stuff like that Also the United States has mature and calm meeting there self. United is basically Rome they treated everyone fairly and kindly in a good manner. Rome is way better than Athen , first off
There more fair than Athens because they actually give people a chance to be a citizens. Second Rome gave women a right to be citizen also new born babies , but they had limited rules. Lastly Roman Senate was way more calm and mature and organized the Athenian Assembly was super rude, noisy and unorganized they was so busy talking among them self that they couldn't hear the announcer couldn't even say why they're even there because it so loud. This is my opinion why Rome is way better Athens. (Doc A, B, ,D, E and F

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