Cont. from yesterday.
assembly of the demos
male athenians citizens listen discuss and vote on topics taht affected athenian life, spoke their minds and excercise their votes that had to do with the gov. of the city, was the most censtral and most definitive institution of their deomcracy, citizens whre paid for attending.
the council of 500 represented the full time gov of athens. had 500 citizens, 50 from each 10 tribes who serve 1 year, could issue laws on its own but main function was to prepare the agendda for meetings of the assembly.
the peoples court where citizen jurys and had to be 30
supplemented by the council of he areooagus archons, and generals
geography of athens
has thousands of islands, 70 to 80% mountains, athens was surrounded by mountains, located on a peninsula on the mediterranean sea, fish was a main part of their diet, used the sea for tradeing and transporting.
their climate is mild with wet winters around 50 degrees with hot and dry summers around 80 good for outdoor activities, trade was easy but transportation was difficult cause of the mountains, crops could grow easy but farmland was scarce, had many natural resources such as zinc lead iron ore salt limestone nickel ect. sea trade was common the most ships where cargo ships, athens traded with everyone and ecnomy soared. farming wassd hard due to the mountains, main crops whre barley, grapes, and olives, athens grew just enough for thier family and extra was taken to the market, mining was common in athens makeing weapons armour money and tools, only slaves worked in the mines, all of the hard manual labor was done by slaves, only free citizens could be in the military.
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