3. Aristocracy is a group of rich noble people ruling a country, a Oligarchy is one rich noble person ruling a country.
4. Solon:
outlawed debt slavery
everyone can speak at assemblies
anyone can press charges against another.
Cleisthenes:
Allowed all citizens to submit laws
created council of 500
free adult males born in Athens who owned land were citizens
5. Athens benefited because it helped their army grow stronger, they had more people in it because weapons and armor were made out of iron not bronze which was less expensive and stronger. They also used a new army strategy called the phalanx, this is when they have a group of men in a square and the people hold their spears out in front of them, the row behind them slightly higher and all the way up until they had a wall of spears.
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