Men/Women
Examples included a show of hands or placing stones in a jug.
What is voting?
Where the council met.
What is the agora (Bouleuterion)?
Who Athenians bring a complaint to.
What is a magistrate?
A long poem that usually tells a story about a hero.
What is an epic?
The amount of members needed for the Assembly
What is 6000?
A political group.
What is tribe?
Male citizens were chosen by lottery to determine the innocence of a person.
What is a jury (jurors)?
Writings and objects that were created by people living at a certain time
What are primary sources?
The decision made by the Assembly.
What is decree?
Names are drawn to select individuals.
What is a lottery?
A person who is accused of a crime.
What is a defendant?
Were children of parents who were born in Athens.
What are citizens?
People vote directly on issues rather than having representatives make decisions on their behalf.
What is direct democracy?
The list of topics that will be discussed at a meeting
What is an agenda?
A person who brings the complaint about another person to the courts.
What is a plaintiff?
Were owned by citizens or by the city-state.
What are slaves?
Every member of the Assembly had an equal right to ________.
What is speak or vote?
The Council of 500.
What is the government of Athens?
They would vote on whether the defendant was innocent or guilty.
Who are the jurors?
Residents of Athens who were born outside the city-state.
What are metics?