OCR GCSE Ancient History · J198
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A system of government in which citizens participate in political decisions. Ancient Greek citizenship did not include all inhabitants.
Revise: Persian Invasions of Greece: 493–490 BCMardonius’ willingness to allow more democratic government in Ionia also challenges the assumption that Persian rule always required the destruction of democracy.
- Revise: The Succession Crisis: Maeandrius, Syloson, and Persia
Government in which citizens share political decision-making rather than being ruled by a single individual. Ancient citizenship did not include everyone living in a community.
- Revise: Athenian Foreign Policy and the Ionian Revolt
A system of government in which citizens exercise political power. In ancient Athens, political participation was restricted to adult male citizens, not the whole population.
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- Revise: War and Leadership: Marathon, the Navy and Key Individuals
- Revise: Herodotus
A Greek city-state’s government in which citizens share political decision-making; in Athens, citizenship and political rights were restricted.
- Revise: Thucydides
Government by the people. In Thucydides 2.37.1, Pericles explains the name through the Athenian constitution favouring the majority rather than the few.
- Revise: Aristotle and The Old Oligarch: Constitutional Sources
Government in which the citizen body holds political power. Athenian citizenship did not include everyone living in Athens.
- Revise: Athenian Self-Identity and the Funeral Oration
A system of government in which the people exercise political power. In ancient Athens, this meant participation by its citizen body, not by everyone who lived there.
- Revise: Thucydides
A system of government in which the people exercise political power. In Pericles’ account, Athenian democracy favours the majority rather than the few; this does not establish that every inhabitant possessed equal political rights.