Government

Government Ancient Greece was broken up into separate city-states. City-states were separated from each other by mountains. Each city-state had it’s own government. In the beginning, each was ruled by a few rich men and later they started a democracy. A democracy is where people vote for their rulers, and some vote to help make decisions within the city-state. Democracy means, __rule by the people__.



There was also something called The Council. The Council was made up of 500 citizens. They created new policies and laws too. In the legal system, all citizens over 30 were to volunteer for jury. They were all expected to do this. In each court, there was a jury of about 200.



All citizens had the right to vote at the Assembly. They also had the right to speak out. They met about once every ten days on the Pynx. This was the hill they met on.

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