Question

what are some differences between roman and greek governement?

Answer 1

(i will try to be simple)

Anciant greece never had a single goverment, each city was a country itself so there where many types of governing systems.
monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, democracy and others.

democracy was developed in athens, at some point it started spreading, so many other citys adopted it as well.
including non greek citys like rome.

when rome conquered greece, it was concidered as a roman provence, and therefor rulled by a roman officer, the greeks themselves did not feel bad as a part of a roman state (hence roman civilasiation was based on the greek one in every aspect) so here is were the development goverments actualy stop in anciant greece, but the main idea of the roman republic was based on athens democracy (this is how it influenced it)

in rome the republic (which is another word for democracy actualy), continued being the governing system, but it changed with the rise of ceasars, and you could say it was a sort of mixed system, they had a cenate who continued issuing laws ,but the power was in the hands of ceasar.

generaly anciant democracies are really diferent than modern goverments, first of all you had the right to vote and be voted if you was a citizent (women - slaves - none greek / romans were not citizents)
in the case of athens , power came from the people, but in rome the ceasar was holding all the power. in contrast with modern democracys that are supposed to represent all people.

but modern day goverments are based on the whole idea about democracy which was developed in the renaissance and latter on tge enlightment.
the first real republic if i am not mistaken is the french republic.
also systems existed like the venice republic (but since the dodge was the ruler, its a mixed system, and just like the english system i am not so sure to be honnest)

so basicly all modern day goverments are based on the french model.
exept communism which was a model himself and even if it is not concidered a democracy , the power came from the people, so it actualy (theoriticaly at least) is a form of democracy.

(i want to coment :p hard question haha)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Firs...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic