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Ancient Athens voting system comic
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- The Birth of Democracy
- By Tani and Chris
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- Ancient Athens, 600 BCE
- The rich families have all the power! us poor people have nothing!
- He's right ! We work day and night and still can't choose who rules us?!?
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- Solon
- Alright. If it's me you all want, here I am.
- WE WANT SOLON!
- Give us a fair ruler!
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- The Bouleuterion (Council House)
- I will put power in the hands of the people! From now on, all male citizens over the age of 18 shall and will be able to vote! We shall call it- democracy.
- Solon
- No more tyrants! Bravo!
- Hooray! We finally have rights!
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- 500 BCE
- With the help of other political reformers, the Athenian voting system was perfected.
- To make things more fair, we shall be ruled by a council of 500 randomly selected citizens. They will be chosen in a process called sortition, and there will be 50 council members from each tribe of Athens.
- I'm not so sure about this...
- Cleisthenes
- Brilliant!
- Their job will be to make decisions and pass laws through free and fair voting and debating.
- This guy is a genius!
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- The innovation changed everything:
- The government changed..
- As a poor man, this is great! I actually have some power for once in my life! This new voting system has changed the government so much!
- As a rich man , this new form of government sucks. All the power is with the people!
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- Daily life involved more debating...
- Plato is the best philosopher !
- No, he's not ! Plato is against democracy! He does not represent the consensus of the people, as everyone thinks that democracy is important! How can he be a good philosopher?
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- It also led to war and disagreements...
- For Athens! Down with tyrants!
- For Sparta!!!! Down with democracy!!
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- Some people were excluded from voting, and the system was not perfect.
- We can't vote!
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- Athens
- Nevertheless, overtime, the idea of democracy began to spread across and outside of Greece.
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- 2000+ years later...
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- Today, the effects of Athenian voting systems can still be seen. The U.N and the majority of its member countries use a voting system inspired by the original Athenian one to make decisions.
- All voting in favor of the decision?
- The U.K will not participate in this vote.
- Uganda votes in favor of this decision.
- The U.S will vote in favor as well!
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- In conclusion, the invention of voting systems in Ancient Athens has had a tremendously important effect both on the modern and ancient worlds. It is considered to be on the most historical significant events in history because modern countries take it as an inspiration for their own democracies, and the fact that it was considered an important an innovation by ancient Athenians. First introduced in the 6th century BCE, democracy has gone on to shape both the ancient and modern world.
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- THE END
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