Ancient Greek government and modern American government are two very different ways of running a nation. Five main forms of government existed in ancient Greece (monarchy, chiefdom, and tyranny in one category, and oligarchy and democracy in the second) versus the one type of government that applies in the United States, democracy. The Greeks believed in strong central government, ruled by kings and tyrants who kept everything under control at their will. The United States, however, believes in the voice of the people and lets them vote on who they want to represent them in political matters. The obvious improvement of today's society would have benefited the people of ancient Greece, instead of going through all the hardships they struggled.

Monarchy, chiefdom, and tyranny were the first forms of government in the early Greek ages. All these had a similarity of...