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Direct Democracy

  Before class started today my laptop had a loose screw that I was able to fix using Mr.Schick's screwdriver, thank you very much. For the rest of class we took notes on how Greece developed a direct democracy. After Cleisthenes was put into power he changed the government to where all citizens could debate and vote on issues. Only about 1/5 of the population were citizens because it only classified free adult male landowners. The citizens went to the agora which is a meeting place to discuss government to give arguments on how Athens should be run. After the citizens spoke there would be a vote where citizens would use black and white stones to vote. Athens started to use this form of government around 500 BCE.

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