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Democracy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Social and Political
        
        Property Class Reforms
        
        Organised by wealth not birth
        
        Zeugitai
        
        Could afford to yoke together 2 oxen (200-300 medimnoi)
        
        Political eligibility
        
        Lesser offices of state
        
        Members of assembly
        
        Jurors
        
        Hippeis
        
        Could afford to own and maintain a horse (300-500 medimnoi)
        
        Political eligibility
        
        Lesser offices of state
        
        Members of assembly
        
        Council of Areopagus
        
        Jurors
        
        Archonships
        
        Thetes
        
        Many did not own land but worked as hired labourers (<200 medimnoi)
        
        Political eligibility
        
        Members of assembly
        
        Jurors
        
        Pentakosiomedimnoi
        
        Owned enough land to produce 500+ medimnoi
        
        Political eligibility
        
        Archonships
        
        Council of Areopagus
        
        State treasurers
        
        Members of the assembly
        
        Jurors
      - Economic
        
        Those who had previously been enslaved due to debt were freed
        
        Export of all foodstuffs, apart from olive oil, was banned to prevent famine
        
        Archaeology from the 6th century shows a sharp rise of pottery containing olive oil exported
        
        Outlawed the enslavement of anyone unable to pay debts
        
        Those who had been enslaved and sold abroad were allowed to return to Attica and had their citizenship restored
        
        Debts were cancelled (seisachtheia)
        
        Men were encouraged to learn a trade other than farming
        
        Standardisation of weights and measures
        
        Encouraged trade with well-established centres such as Corinth
      - Legal
        
        New laws displayed on kyrbeis in the agora
        
        Public lawsuits
        
        Any citizen could prosecute an offence in contrast to private lawsuits where only the injured party of family could prosecute
        
        Encourage citizens to identify with the rights of others
        
        Right to appeal
        
        Gave citizens the right to appeal to the Heliaia
        
        Citizens of all classes were eligible to sit on these juries
        
        Aristotle 'when people have the right to vote in courts, they control the constitution'
    - - Poor believed he didn't do enough while rich believed he went too far
      - Peisistratus
        
        Tyrant in 561/60
        
        Established local judges to solve disputes outside of Athens
  - - - Deme system
        
        Encouraged people to identify by their deme rather than their father's name
        
        Local council and assembly
        
        Allowed lower classes to gain government experience which would allow them to participate in the assembly or Boule
        
        139 demes
        
        Registration
        
        Had to register in their father's deme
        
        Had to take a citizenship test
        
        18 (male)
        
        Had to keep a record of all citizens
      - 10 tribes
      - Aim
        
        Prevent an uprising, as tribes were split into different regions making it more difficult to orchestrate
        
        Break the hold of aristocratic families
      - 3 regions
        
        City
        
        Inland
        
        Coast
        
        Divided them into 30 smaller divisions called Trittyes
      - Local heroes for each tribe
        
        Appointed by the Delphic Oracle
        
        Allowed for tribes to identify with one another
    - - 500 people
        
        50 from each tribe
      - Voted on what would be discussed in the ekklesia
    - - 10, 1 from each tribe
      - In charge of the army
      - Not picked by sortition
    - - Picked by lot
    - - Needed 6000 votes for an ostracism
      - Voted on ostraka
      - First ostracism in 488/7
      - Exiled for 10 year
      - Gave power to the people, meant to prevent Tyrants
- - - - Wasps
      - Frogs
      - Peace
      - Knights
      - Acharnians
      - Assemblywomen