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---- ====== ====== Two important people during this time were Draco, who appointed a strict law code and from whom we derive the term 'draconian', and his successor and well admired Solon who mandated a new constitution in 594 BC. After Solon more reforms followed which freed up trade and commerce, making Athens very wealthy and granting it a large middle class, abolishing slavery as a punishment for debts, and a formation of 4 main classes to which the lowest and most common, the Thetes, were for the first time granted political rights allowing them to vote, though only upper class was allowed to hold political office.

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