WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -they used their soldiers to remove the oligarchs from power. During the mid-600s B.C.E., people in many Greek city-states relied on the men who had promised to change the government. These men who forced the oligarchs to from power were called tyrants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tyrants obtained their power by seizing it, usually in the name of security of the city-state. There were several forms of tyrannies in Ancient Greece.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thus, the tyrants of the Archaic age of ancient Greece (c. 900–500 bce)-Cypselus, Cleisthenes, Peisistratus, and Polycrates-were popular, presiding as they did over an era of prosperity and expansion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Athenian Revolution (508–507 BCE) was a revolt by the people of Athens that overthrew the ruling aristocratic oligarchy, establishing the almost century-long self-governance of Athens in the form of a participatory democracy – open to all free male citizens.