during the dorian period. dorian and the mycenaean peopel started to identify less with culture of their ancestors and more with the local area. goverment made the transition to city states instaid

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during the dorian period.  dorian and the mycenaean peopel started to identify less with culture of their ancestors and more with the local area.  goverment made the transition to city states instaid of clan control.  goverment,  a polis was made up of a city and its surrounding countryside,  which would include numerous villiages.  not all city and states had the same kind of goverment.  monarchy state is ruled by a king.  ruleing is heredity and based n ties, social rank and welath.  social status and wealth support rulers' authority.  practiced in athens prior to 594 b.c..  oligarchy  state ruled by a small group of citizens.  rule is based on wealth or/ ability.  direct democracy.  state ruledby the citizens.  rule is absed on citizenship.  majority rule decides the vot.  practized in athens by 500 bc.  key players.  draco,  developed a legal code that rich or poor are equal under law.  he had harsh punishments for thsoe that fell under the law.  he believed in debt of slavery.  solon,  stated that no citizen should own another.  organized athens into four  social classes based on wealth.  cleisthenes,  broke athens up based on region that the citizens lived instead of wealth.  he increased the power of the assembly by the allowing all the citizens to submit laws for debate and passage.  limited democracy,  the reforms allowed for a limited democracy.  howover, but all the people were citizens.  requiements,  free adult.  sparta,  several branches,  all citizens were welcome elected officals and voted on major issues.  council of elders, 30 older citizens, proposed the laws on the assembely to vote on.  five elected officials that carried out the laws that were passed by the assembly.