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Cleisthenes Comparison Of Sparta And Athenian Democracy

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Ancient Greece was not a single society; it was a collection of over 1500 city states, 2 of them being Athens and Sparta. Athens would have been a better society to live in because of the Athenian belief in having the ideology of the people expressed, in ways such as democracy, culture and economic stability. Athens was a city known for having the community give power to whomever they want to run the city, also known as a direct democracy, while Sparta was ruled 2 Kings. In 508/7, Cleisthenes managed a radical political reform movement which overtook Peisistratus's dictatorship and ushered in the Athenian democratic constitution (Cartledge), this allowed for the city to vote for men who they want to represent them and their best interests and
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