Democracy In Ancient Greece Essay

In the following essay I will explain how the monarchy, the aristocracy and the democracy existed in the antique Greece. It will also include how the military was managed according to the leading system they had. Throughout my research I used Miklos Szaray`s Tortenelem 1, Nemzeti Tankonykiado, 2003 book as a primary source because this specific use of English that our textbook has, confused me. For the start, the democratic system has been used by the Athenians during the antique age. Athens’s society could have been separated into three main groups, to the ’full citizens’, to the metics (strangers in Athens), and to the slaves. However, slavery was not common, they were used just in households. After the general development of Athens, the hereditary monarchy has been replaced by aristocratic monarchy. This meant that not the king was the one, who leaded Athens. There were nine archons who took the king’s place over, they controlled the politics, the economy, the religion, the military and the justice. Nonetheless, only the wealthy citizens (aristocrats) had …show more content…
These subjugated natives were called the helots. They lost all of their property and became slavers, worked on the fields. Sparta was leaded by two kings and the citizens. The kings controlled the religious questions and also the army, in case of wars. Sparta’s upper class, the citizens were the only who had political rights, but in the hustings all they were able to do is to vote by yes or no to the questions that has been asked them. In this aristocratic system, everything depended on the army. They put a lot effort in into make the army stronger and stronger (Szaray #110). Sparta’s men had to serve in the military since young age, had to go to military trainings as well. All Spartan citizens were considered as equal, only the two kings and the helots were in a different