whats the difference with ancient greek democracy and our democracy?

Question

plzz help me. i have posted this question 2 times already. i just need help with the difference in the democracy. (just read the title)
also, what did they do in ancient democracy besides from the "men only voting" answer.
thanx

Answer 1

There are several differences, but the most notable is that we do not use a true democracy in the US. We have a representational democracy; we elect people who then make decisions for us. In a true (Athenian) democracy, all individuals eligible for voting voted on every issue proposed.

Answer 2

Democracy was started by a man named Peracleis (sp) thoguh ppl will argue with that. Represnetatives weren't chosen like they are today; every male citizen born in Athens could vote once he was of legal age and has already had 2 years of trining in the military (at 18 all boys joined the army until they were 20). At 20 they became men and could vote.
If a matter or bill had to be duscussed every man in the entire had the choice to go to the town hall of sorts and give their statement. They can say either 'aye' or 'nae' by placing a stone ballot in a box. This was done by every man in attendance.
There were men known as senators and tey are the ones who proecided over the meeting and they had an equal share as the peasent did. As long as the peasent owned land, he could vote.
Women were not allowed inside the walls of the building during the meeting 'cuz the were deemed unpure and too ignorant to understand the matter (hence Pandora's box).

To vote in Athens:

male
20 years+
own land
Athenian citizen

To vote in US:

male or female (since 1919)
18 years+
US citizen

Answer 3

The real difference is that Athen's democracy was a true democracy; our's is a democratic republic.

In Athens everyone had a vote on all issues, while here, we elected representatives to vote for us.

Democracy has been equated to mobocracy. Democracy was also attempted in Florence, Italy and failed.

So what you have is two totally different systems.

Answer 4

It was direct democracy. The modern ones are representative democracies.
Without hesitation and without exception, Greeks would have called all our much trumpeted democracies OLIGARCHIES - the rule of the few. The point is that the people as a whole don't decide the electoral system itself, as they did in a Greek democracy.

Answer 5

Yes, ours is a representative democracy. We vote for the people who will represent us in making laws and other decisions.