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Unit 3-Democracy
Our Democratic Heritage
Question | Answer |
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Architecture | Building homes and buildings |
Columns | A vertical structure that holds a building up |
Greece | A small country |
Olympic Games | A competitive sporting event which each country competes with other countries to win metals |
The Olympic Games began in what country? | Greece |
We live in what country? | United States |
We live in what state? | Georgia |
We live in what city? | Georgetown |
In Greek Olympics other counties did not compete. Greek _________ competed. | Cities |
__________ was the first country to use columns in their architecture. | Greece |
What buildings in the U.S. have columns? | Supreme Court Building, White House, Lincoln Memorial, Shorter Mansion |
How were the Olympic Games in ancient Greece the same as today’s Olympic Games? | They brought people together in the spirit of peace. |
representative democracy | A type of democracy where the people elect one person to tell the "White House" their ideas. |
direct democracy | A type of democracy where all the people gather together and vote. |
What type of democracy did Ancient Greece use? | direct democracy |
What type of democracy does the United States use today? | representative democracy |
Why does the United States use a representative democracy and not a direct democracy? | Because not everyone in the country can fit into the White House |