government

Government

**Democracy is when the people vote who they want to be their leader. Athens people were divided into 3 groups. They were: upper class-male citizens of Athens since birth, Middle class-males that were not born in Athens, Lower class-slaves. Men who were born in Athens were only alowed to vote.** **Assemblies was a place were upper class men went to vote. They usually became very noisy and argumentative. They discussed laws that might benefit Athens.**
 * Ancient Greece was divided up into city states. Each city state was divided from each other. It was very mountainous, so it made it hard to travel to one place to another. Each city state had its own government. In the beginning they were ruled by wealthy men then it moved towards democracy. **

http://greek-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/forms_of_government_in_ancient_greek_city_states http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webunits/greecerome/Greecegovt1.html