WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In order to be considered a citizen of a Greek city-state, you had to be ____
A
Free
B
Native-born
C
Landowning Man
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Answer:BY their strong government, the army, and the ability to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -To the ancients, citizenship was a bond between a person and the city-state. Before Greek times, a person was generally connected to a tribe or kin-group such as an extended family, but citizenship added a layer to these ties-a non-kinship bond between the person and the state.

Detailed explanation-3: -People living in Ancient Greece did not think of themselves as “Greek", but as citizens of their city-state. For example, people from Corinth considered themselves Corinthians and people from Sparta considered themselves Spartans.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Ancient Greece, a metic (Greek: metoikos) was a foreigner living in a Greek city-state (polis). The metic did not have the same citizen rights as a citizen who was born in the state he was living in. The term ‘metic’ was especially used in ancient Athens in the 4th and 5th centuries BC.

There is 1 question to complete.