The Three Stages Of Athenian Democracy

Athens, this place is truly wonderful, it is a privilege to see where democracy first started. I have arrived in the the tale end of Athens golden age in the 5th century BCE. There is so much culcher from it philosophers to its citizen army. After talking to the locals I can narrow down Athens government into three stages. First there was Aristocracy, this government was arranged that only a few wealthy family had all the power and the rest had no political say in how the city state was rain. This carried on for a few centuries however the poorer class revolted kicking out he the wealthy families out of power. Then came the tyrants, some of the tyrants where self centered and only cared about themselves however some were good and made the city state a better place like …show more content…
All men who had land where considered a citizen. They would go to the place to vote about everything, the Pnyx. A white stone for yes and and a black stone for no. They would vote from going to war to building a new temple this was a engineous system and many other city states adopted it.There are three main branch in athens democracy the console of 500, the 500 men who drafted laws to vote on. The assembly would approve or reject the laws the console proposed. The last part of the government was the public speaker they would try and change the citaza view on certain things. After looking around I have seen 3 social classes The Citizens, they could hold office and the most rights to be a citizen you had to be born in athens and own land. The metics, the metics were born outside of athens and so they were not citizens so they could not hold office however were could become artisans and could become very wealthy. The last class was the slave the have no rights and ni say in what they do whatsoever how ever their master could free them and they could become