HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Citizens elected representatives to make decisions.
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Only free men could speak in the Assembly.
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Widows replaced their dead husbands in the Assembly.
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Citizens supported oligarchs, who made decisions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When a new law was proposed, all the citizens of Athens had the opportunity to vote on it. To vote, citizens had to attend the assembly on the day the vote took place. This form of government is called direct democracy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The established Athenian Democracy of classical times (462-322 BC) governed and expressed itself through three main principles: equality, equity and parity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which is a true statement about the democracy of ancient Athens? All citizen were able to vote or hold a political office. Who decided the laws in Athenian democracy?
Detailed explanation-4: -Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics called him a populist. Pericles was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically-influential Alcmaeonid family.