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How Democracy Developed in Ancient Greece

How Democracy Developed in Ancient Greece Athens developed a system in which every free Athenian man had a vote in the Assembly. Author: 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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