UNIT 1: ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY
Prologue section 1- Main idea:
The Greeks developed democracy, and the Romans added representative government.
Representation and citizenship participation are important for democracy.
Prologue section 2- Main idea:
Judaism and Christianity taught individual worth, ethical values, and the need to fight
injustice. These ideals continue to be important to democracy today.
Prologue section 3- Main idea:
England began to develop democratic institutions that limited the power of the monarchy.
England influenced many other countries in starting democracies including the U.S.
Prologue section 4- Main idea:
Enlightenment ideas helped bring about the American and French revolutions. These
revolutions and the documents they produced have inspired other democratic movements.
Vocabulary:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Aristocracy
Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Direct
Democracy
6. Plato*
7. Republic
8. Aristotle*
9. Judaism
10. Polytheism
11. 10 Commandments
12. Christianity
13. Islam
14. Renaissance
15. Reformation
16. monotheism
Essential Questions:
1. What was the divine right of
kings?
2. How were Enlightened ideas a
break from the past?
3. Why did civic reformers argue
for representative governments?
17. Common Law
18. Magna Carta
19. Due process of law
20. Parliament
21. Divine right
22. Glorious Revolution
23. Constitutional
Monarchy
24. English Bill of Rights
25. Enlightenment
26. Separation of
powers
27. Montesquieu*
28. Thomas Hobbes*
29. John Locke*
30. Voltaire*
31. Beccaria*
32. Rousseau*
33. Mary
Wollstonecraft*
* = important person
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