It said that one of the most important contributions from Greece was the founding of democracy, which originally started as an experiment ("Ancient Athens Democracy for Kids and Teachers - Ancient Greece for Kids," n.d). Solon, whose name translates as “a wise and skillful lawgiver initiated change in democracy by allowing even poor citizens the ability to vote and sit in the assembly ("Democracy Is Born [ushistory.org]," n.d.). Every large city-state would have a big open field that was known as the agora where you would find a marketplaces and government buildings and was a place where the citizens gathered and spoke amongst each other about variety of issues ("Democracy Is Born [ushistory.org]," n.d.). If a jury was necessary they consisted
