| TYPE OF GOVERNMENT (stages) | DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT | |
| SPARTA
Totalitarian form of government because the Ephors controlled as the aristocracy totally everything |
MONARCHY(King)
ARISTOCRACY TYRANNY POPULAR GOVERNMENT (really an aristocracy) ASSEMBLY (ARISTOCRACY) |
Age of Kings
Rise of the Nobles Age of the Tyrants Elected Assembly, Council of Elders Who Proposed Laws, the Ephors, Elected by the Assembly for 1 Year Term Controlled the Government Without the Consent of the People. Ephors Had Unlimited Power During this Time |
| ATHENS
Popular government is the idea that people could and should rule
themselves rather than be ruled by others.
Developed into a democracy because of the actions of the four reformers |
MONARCHY(King)
ARISTOCRACY
POPULAR GOVERNMENT
ASSEMBLY (DEMOCRACY) |
Age of Kings
Only Those Citizens Who Had a Certain Amount of Land Could Vote in the Assembly. These Met and Elected Nine Archons Who Appointed All Officials/ Made All the Laws. Judges, Always a Group of Nobles, Interpreted the Laws Which Always Favored the Nobles Developed Under the Four Reformers Draco Solon Pisistratus Cleisthenes All Citizens Could Hold Public Office. Over Half All Residents Citizens. Not only wealthy could participate because they began to pay Office Holders |