Ancient Greek Government Essay

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The early Greeks developed the concept of Democracy which is one of the many forms of government systems widely used in the world today. In the Ancient Greek, the concept of “Demos” had three definitions which were developed to define the following situations: 1. Demos was “a word used to refer to subdivisions of land” (Brand, n.d., p.18). In this definition, sub-division of land was instituted by a popular aristocratic politician called Cleisthenes during the archaic period by deliberately creating ten artificial tribes in order to unite the men from each of the “old faction – men of the plains, the coast and the hill” (Brand, n.d., p.18). 2. Demos was also defined as rule of “the free, native-born, males” (Brand, n.d., p.29) of the Athenian