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A- When it comes to politics, Americans have become pretty pessimistic. People don’t trust the political parties. Voter turnout is mediocre. Cynicism and polarization are rampant. But this pessimism belies a truth: Individual Americans have more political power than they realize.
B-The Athenian definition of “citizens” was also different from modern-day citizens: only free men were considered citizens in Athens. Women, children, and slaves were not considered citizens and therefore could not vote. Each year 500 names were chosen from all the citizens of ancient Athens.
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The last one and because no one had to much power each branch was kept inline by the other.
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Some of the torture methods that interrogators used to get prisoners to admit to crimes were having prisoners skulls squeezed within iron rings, exposing their naked bodies to be bitten by ants and other different bugs and being stopped from sleeping for a week.
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The gulag was a Russian government agency created by Vladimir Lenin, the agency was in charge of the soviet forced labor camp system. The camp contained an extremely large number of convicts.
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...in turmoil.
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After the American Revolution, the French also believed that it was time for them to reconstruct their government. Their government under the leadership of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette did not work well, as they proved to be ineffective in helping the people, as well as spending large amounts of money on their own pleasures. This led to the overthrow of the Monarchy as well as the Reign of Terror, that ended with the coup d'tat led by the popular Napoleon Bonaparte & the rise of the French Empire.
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Chandragupta II gave great support to the arts. Artists were so highly valued under his rule that they were paid for their work — a rare phenomenon in ancient civilizations. Perhaps it is due to this monetary compensation that such considerable progress was made in literature and science during the period.
