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Western civilization is what we call modern society that mainly includes North America and

Western Europe. But how did this western way of life come to be? Their are many different

ways but mainly through ancient cultures. The two main ones are the Greek and Roman.

Greece with their golden age and Rome with its great Empire and Republic and also

together.

Their are many ways in which western civilization is like the ancient Greek

civilization. They started the Olympic games. Greeks come up with the idea of an alphabet

that it still used today. They were the first to think of the idea of democracy. They had

common people participate in their government and to elect a leader. Their trials had an

actual jury made up of commoners. Greece was the first to think of paying people for their

labor. It also had the initial philosophers and thought up of the way we now write literature.

Including the idea of putting on a play. One of history’s......

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