Tuesday 19 January 2016

Democracy

Athens and the birth of democracy

Using the link for guidance, blog the answers to the following questions.
1.Who were the people that were able to vote in Ancient Athens?
2. How many years ago did democracy start? 
3.What does the word democracy mean?
4. What is a city-state?
5. What is the origin of the word Democracy?
A simple majority won in Ancient Athens and in Canada today. This system has some flaws when there are more than two choices. Here is a graph of what kind of ice cream to buy for the class, 1 is the first choice, 3 is the last choice. If we were to pick the ice cream flavour, the way Canada picks its leaders:
7. Which ice cream flavour would we buy?
8. What would be the problem with this choice?
9. What other system could be used?







10. Has democracy been in constant use since Ancient Greece?

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