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DEMOCRACY
Part II: Answer all questions directly on answer sheet provided.
1. Who could be a citizen in Athens?
a) A slave
b) a noble woman
c) a metic
d) none of the above
2. The people of Athens were the first to believe in __________ .
a) tyrannical rule
b) democratic rule
c) aristocratic rule
d) theocratic rule
3. THIS term means ‘ruled by the best’
a) aristocracy
b) democracy
c) oligarchy
d) tyranny
4. Beginning in about 775 B. C. the people of Greece began holding athletic games every
four year in the city of __________ .
a) Athens
b) Sparta
c) Olympia
d) Corinth
5. The winners of the Olympic games won _________ .
a) feathers
b) olive wreaths
c) trophies
d) medals
6. THESE fighting forces proved to be such a necessity over time that officers in
Athens were the first to demand political representation/ freedoms …
a) Helots
b) phalanxes
c) hoplites
d) ostraka
7. Spartans who did not belong to the ruling classes were called …
a) oligarchs
b) tyrants
c) helots
d) aristocrats
PART III: Fill in the blanks on the answer sheet provided.
1. A one-man rule that arises when one man seizes power by appealing to the people
is called __(1)___.
2. The term _ (2) _ means rule by many or ‘the common people.’
3. Once they were freed of the tyrannical _(3)_, the Athenians used the “hired guns”
(Spartans) to seek and destroy anyone who opposed democratic reform – thus
setting the stage for Solon.
4. One of Solon’s reforms was that debtors could not be _(4)_.
5. Solon’s reforms would not have been enforced had it not been for a sympathetic
tyrant named _(5)_.
Part IV: On the back of your answer sheet, identify and describe one major contribution
to the development of Athenian democracy for each of the following …
1. Cleisthenes:
2. Pericles