Write a paragraph explaining how Greek and Roman ideals heavily influenced the creation of the American political process

Greek and Roman ideals heavily influenced american politics in many ways. The united states established a democratic republic after claiming there freedom from Britian. Every citizen of the United States of America can participate in running for office which we got from the Greeks thinking of Government. And If we couldn't run for office we can still vote for government officials that we would like to see in office which we got from Roman Politics. Today we see both cultures ideas of government in the heart of our society, but our government leans more towards the Romans then the greeks

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion