Direct democracy

Today we didn't really get many notes but we did do a lot of discussions. The notes we took today we learned that 1/5 of athenians were citizens so only 1/5 of the people who lived in Athens were wealthy land owners, born in Athens, and were adult male who were free. But when Cleisthenes came to power more regular citizens were able to participate in the council of five hundred. We also learned what a direct democracy was. It when the state is ruled by its citizens. Rule is based on citizenship, majority rule decides vote and it was first practiced under Cleisthenes in Athens around 500 BCE. These are pretty much the only notes I was able to take so this is going to be a shorter blog mainly because we had large discussions about different topics.