Describe the contribution of the ancient Greeks to western civilization.
The ancient Greece affected the western civilization like the government, sport, thought, philosophy, and etcetera. Nowadays, the Greek’s culture is same as ancient; people still have the right to vote their leader in the direct democracy. People confirmed that is a strong power of government. Almost all those people agreed with that kind of government. However, there have many aspects of Greek culture that have influenced many country of the world.
The most distinguished and famous philosophers of Greece were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They had thought that everyone must have opportunities and rights to elect, to vote, to express their ideas and opinions by their selves, is called democracy. Greece had the first known democracy in the world. Democratic country always give people freedom, people also like freedom.
The United States of America also agreed with them. So, it is a democratic country, they elect their president by American citizens except less than eighteen years old, but it is an indirect democracy. It can say that The United States of America borrowed their ideas from Greece. It also used the three branches of Greece, which are executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch. Now, modern country of The United States of America is similar to ancient Greece, as both of them are democratic countries.