The age of revolutions lasted from 1791 to 1850. What was one long-term effect of it? The French established a long-lasting republic with a representative parliament. Monarchs were able to crush most rebellions, and people won few new rights. Prussia and Austria gave citizens the right to elect their leaders. Liberal ideology and reforms were accepted across Europe.

During Athens first democracy, the people:

(A) were divided based on wealth.

When democracy was born in Athens, the entire Greek world was experiencing a social crisis. The big landowners dominated the small farmers, and the wealthy artisans who lived in the cities wanted to take power. There was inequality between the rich and the poor. The politicians wanted to reduce the gap by trying a new system. It was the ideas of Dracon, Solon, Clisthenes, and Pericles that dominated the debates, and Athenian democracy started.

The event that created inequality in the Greek world was the arrival of money in the sixth century BC. As a result, trade developed very rapidly in the region and plunged many Greeks into poverty. The new poor farmers were forced to become slaves to survive without money and the possibility of selling their products. Large landowners took advantage of this situation and employed these slaves to develop their companies, which provoked unfair competition with small artisans. It was because of farmer revolts and the new rich in the cities that the political system changed in Athens.

Subject: History

Chapter: Ancient Greece

Keywords: Ancient Greece, the history of Greece, the city of Athens, the first democracy in Athens