HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Only male citizens
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Only female citizens
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Both male and female citizens
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens. The percentage of the population that actually participated in the government was 10% to 20% of the total number of inhabitants, but this varied from the fifth to the fourth century BC .
Detailed explanation-2: -Only free adult men who were citizens – about 10% of the population – could vote in Athens’ limited democracy. Women, children, slaves, and foreigners were excluded from participating in making political decisions.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: ) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries.