When1: -500
Who: Aeropagus
What: assembly
Where: Greece
Detail: First city-state assemblies {Aeropagus} included all adult males. In assemblies, nobles and commoners had one vote each. Assemblies declared war, negotiated peace, banished people, and imposed death sentence.
King was leader, and council was priests and family patriarchs. Social classes were rigid. Aliens could not be citizens.
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