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Athenian Democracy
How Athen's democracy came to be.
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History
10th Grade
11/27/2011

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Age of Kings

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1100-700 BC

Time of Homer, Iliad; King rules all; Nobles + wealth flow from his benificense.

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Age of Nobles

(Aristorcracy)

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700-650 BC

Indipendent nobles; colonizing; foot soldiers; busings; trading concerns; king became irrelevent in afairs of the polis; later nobles irrelevent

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Age of Tyrants

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650-500 BC

Individual, powerful, charasmatic, populist leaders seize power-  have support of citizens of the polis. These could arrive from the "noble" or bussiness class. 

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Draco

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621 BC

Written laws, harsh enforcment,

strict interpritation of laws.

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Solon

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594 BC

Abolished debt slavery, limited land ownership, assemblies; courtsystem.

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Pisitratus

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560 BC

Populist; seizing land, redistributing it; exiling nobles.

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Cleisthenes

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508 BC

Apposed government by rich, landowning classes.

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Cleisthines Leads 2...

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Court System

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