HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Free, adult male property owners
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All people in the city-state
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Any male in the city-state
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Free, female citizens, over the age of 21
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Detailed explanation-1: -Not everyone in Athens was considered a citizen. Only free, adult men enjoyed the rights and responsibility of citizenship. Only about 20 percent of the population of Athens were citizens. Women were not citizens and therefore could not vote or have any say in the political process.
Detailed explanation-2: -Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20 could take part, and it was a duty to do so. The officials of the democracy were in part elected by the Assembly and in large part chosen by lottery in a process called sortition.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were three divisions of free men in ancient Greece: the nobles, the secondary landowning class, and the middle business class.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Greek city-state of Sparta, the social system consisted of three unique social classes: the freemen (native Spartans) who controlled the military and politics, the free foreigners who controlled communication with other cities and trade, and the Helots, who were the Spartan enslaved people.