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How Did The Fall Of Greek Democracy

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Throughout human history there has been the rise and the fall of every civilization; Greek democracy couldn’t be an exception.
Solon was the first who attempted to reform the political scene; he put an end to debt slavery and allowed non-aristocratic Athenians having a word in the political life. His successor Cleisthenes, went a step further, he actually mixed the population in order to avoid any possible sabotage by the leading factions and gave power to demos. The term isonomia finally led to democracy.
What marked the end of democracy were the Peloponnesian Wars. The Spartans, who were the winners of the war, established their political status in Athens, the Thirty Tyrants, (Gill, 2017) though soon enough they allowed Athenians to gradually
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