In ancient Greece, an idiot was not a low IQ person but rather one that did not participate in public life and in politics. It was expected that all people should participate in politics since it was the birthplace of democracy and that every person had a duty towards the society to participate in the public life and in political events.
Two ways that geography influenced Greece was that mountains and valleys created city-states, the seas linked the city-states with the outside world.
Two differences between Athens and Sparta are 1) Sparta trained girls in athletics 2) Sparta received land from the government. 1) Athens girls learned crafts and poetry from their mothers 2) Athens had a barricaded corridor called the Long Walls.
In the 1960 Presidential elections, John F Kennedy became the democratic candidate despite his Catholicism.
This was surprising since Anti-Catholic sentiment was pretty high in mainstream American society at the time.
This was also seen as a reason why his presidential win was the closest in the history of the United States with a margin of just 118,000 out of 69 million votes.
Mexican immigrants wanted to escape poverty, war, turmoil, and even persecution for certain groups
