Role Of Coexism In Greek Democracy

Greek democracy was able to coexist with military needs and divisions in social classes by rivers, elections, warfare and other things. These things were very important to the greeks. The next couple paragraphs will be talking about some of the things I just listed. One way Greek democracy could coexist is with rivers, The way they coexisted was through this was that the irrigation works needed for these rivers required a government, and since it required this they had to coexist. I got this information from the following quote “The need to control these rivers with dams, canals, dikes, and other irrigation works led people to form complex, organized societies. A powerful ruler or government was needed to regulate this kind of river…” Another way Greek democracy could coexist is through elections. The way they coexisted was through this was that the social classes voted for who they wanted as leader and also who the wanted exiled for around 10 years. Also this meant that Greek democracy and social classes were both hand and hand. And another way Greek democracy could coexist is through warfare. The way they coexisted was that any social class could join the military to be in warfare and warfare was a big part in the development of greek democracy. I got this information from the quote “ A major one was Greek warfare…. And even poor men could join Greek naval forces…..

The growing importance of such soldiers and sailors helped win them greater power and say as citizens.” There are many ways Greek democracy can coexist with military needs and divisions in social classes even though i’ve