HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Everyone in a city-state had the right to vote
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the rulers of city-states created the first democracy
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the earliest democracy was an oligarchy
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the first democracy developed after tyrants were overthrown
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Detailed explanation-1: -In time powerful landowners took the ruling role from the king for themselves (aristocracy). As some were getting richer than landowners by trading they now took the ruling role for themselves (oligarchy). From citizens discontent directed to aristocracy and oligarchs sprung democracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -what role did tyrants play in the development of greek forms of government? In the development of Greek forms of government, tyranny stopped the age of controlling aristocrats, and led to the development of democracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power.