Men/Women
Examples included a show of hands or placing stones in a jug.
What is voting?
The Council of 500 was responsible for...
setting/planning the agenda
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?
The list of topics that will be discussed at a meeting
What is an agenda?
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?
Why might the Athenians have required citizens to participate at the Assembly rather than allowing them to skip meetings?
What is they believed that active participation was necessary for democracy to work properly
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?
Educated by their mothers.
Who are girls?
People vote directly on issues rather than having representatives make decisions on their behalf.
What is direct democracy?
Where the Council of 500 met.
Bouleuterion
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?
How does the comparison between female citizens in ancient Athens and female citizens in Canada today help explain the concept of progress in democracy?
Hint: how have their rights and opportunities changed?
What is rights and opportunities have expanded over time for women
Every member of the Assembly had an equal right to ________.
What is speak or vote?
Why would the ancient Athenians have chosen to use a lottery system to select citizens for the Council of 500 rather than holding elections?
What is:
- to prevent wealthy or powerful people from controlling government positions
-to ensure fairness (everyone has an equal chance of being picked)
What does the requirement that judges be chosen by lottery suggest about Athenian concerns regarding fairness in the legal system?
What is to reduce the chance of curruption due to bribes or personal connections
Residents of Athens who were born outside the city-state.
What are metics?