The aristocratic Council on the Areopagus had assumed leadership of the city to meet the Persian invasion of 480-479 BCE. When this was repulsed, and with ongoing fighting against Persia now led by Athens, the Council retained control. Twenty years later, with the Persians decisively driven back, Ephialtes organised the disempowerment of the Council and established a moderate democratic assembly to govern. He was assassinated for that, and his deputy Pericles took over, widening the power of the assembly to create a radical democracy where the citizens in assembly directed all facets of governance and an elected council carried out their directions.
Democratic government.
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Greece has A democratic government
In the 8th century, Ancient Greece was a democratic government. This type of government began in the city of Ancient Athens.
Armoured infantry (hoplites), light infantry and archers.
direct democracy.
Radical democracy.
Peaceful Athens exist today because the type of government is democracy and Sparta is oligarchy and democracy went on but not oligarchy. We still have the type of government democracy today.
It was a war between city-states. Athens against Sparta. It weakened Greek civilization.
The Seminoles had a type of democratic government. The democratic government did not work after the Seminole wars so they formed a clan and picked on leader who was named Osceola.
Pericles was an ancient Renaissance type man. He served as an orator, soldier, statesman, and politician. He was prominent in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
Athens, Greece. Athens decided to form a new type of government around 510 B.C. because they wanted the same things that we wanted: the people to have more power and say in the government. But, their type of government was a little different than our because it was just a little city, so it was a lot smaller than ours because we are a huge country.