How Democracy Developed in Ancient Greece
Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly.
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Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly.
In the late 6th century B.C., the Greek city-state of Athens began to lay the foundations for a new kind of political system. This
demokratia, as it became known, was a direct democracy that gave political power to free male Athenian citizens rather than a ruling aristocratic class or dictator, which had largely been the norm in Athens for several hundred years before.
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