Western Civ 2/26 - more notes today and interesting discussion also ash wednesday

Today in class we went over the rest of the powerpoint slides and I wrote down some things. We discussed how a democracy works and discussed how our states now can put polls for certain laws out for us (of voting age) to vote yes or no on. I thought it was interesting that in ancient Greece a white stone means yes and a black stone means no (for the votes). Ash Wednesday I think interrupted our class.

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