Athens: A City State

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Athens A City State

• Location, Government, Daily Life

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Location

• Athens is located on Attica.

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Government

• 509 B.C. Cleisthenes instituted 1st constitution.
  
• It was democratic Demos (people) kratos
  (rule).

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Legislative Branch

• Council
• Solons first council was 400.
• Later changed to 500 citizens (serve only twice)
• Chosen by lot (50 ppl from 10 tribes)
• Each tribal group took turns ruling
• Drew up new laws/policies

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Legislative Continues

• Assembly
• Made of citizens (18 yrs, male, Athens)
• Meet approx. every 10 days
• At least 6,000 must be present
• Vote to approve, change, or reject proposals from
  council

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Executive Branch

• Strategos
• 10 elected annually
• Army commanders
• Implement the policies of
• the Council and Assembly

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Judicial Branch

• Jurors (citizens 20 yrs)
• A jury hundreds of men
• No lawyers or judges
• Citizens presented own case
• Hired professional speechwriters

Ballot disks used for voting
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Citizenship in Athens

• To be a citizen you must be male, 18, and have
  been born in Athens
• Citizens only made up about 15 of the
  population.
• The rest of the Athenian population was made up
  of slaves( 25), women children (48), and
  metics/ foreigners (12).

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Daily Life

• Education
• Boys Began 7 yrs. Old
• Reading, writing, math, music, poetry, art
• Some girls had private tutors

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School of Athens
Euclid, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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Daily Life Continues

• Military
• Boys ages 18 - 20 trained
• Between 20 50 years are called during war