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  • broaded the role of ordinary citizens in government
  • set up the Council of 500, members were chosen by lot from among all citizens over the age of 30
  • made the assembly a genuine legislature
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Cleisthenes was the first to establish an Assembly in Athens where the adult males met to vote on policies put before them by the Council.

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After removal of the tyrants, the oligarchs tried to sieze power again. Cleisthenes held them off and introduced the first democracy in Athens.

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