The Rise of Democratic Ideals Free choice

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Explain how the ancient Greeks and Romans, and the English contributed to the development of democracy.

The ancient Greeks established direct democracy where citizens participated directly in government assemblies to vote on laws and policies. Ancient Rome created the Roman republic as a system of representative government with elected officials. The English contributed to democracy by the Magna Carta, the civil war, and the English Bill of Rights.

Explain how Copernicus’s, Brahes, Keplers, and Galileo, discoveries built up on each other.

Copernicus invented the heliocentric theory meaning that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. In the 1600’s Kepler used mathematics to prove that his theory was right. This led to Galileo creating the telescope and using it to study planets. This led to the scientific method.

Compare and contrast the views of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Rousseau.

To start, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke were very important to the enlightenment movement. Hobbes believed that people had a social Contract in which they gave up their rights to the government so they could live in a safe and orderly way. John Locke believed that people had three natural rights. Rousseau believed in human freedom. He believed that all people were naturally free and good but civilization chained them.

List the main ideas of Montesquie, Volatire, Beccaria, and Wollstone craft.

Montesquie wrote about the political freedom and the separation of Powers, dividing powers among the separate brances of the government. Beccaria wrote against abuses of justice and in favor of all people’s rights. Volatire, wrote for tolerance, reason, and freedom of religious belief. Wollstone craft argued for woman’s rights to be equal to men’s.