How Democratic Was Athens: Was Athens A True Democracy?

Was Athens a true democracy

I believe that athens was a true democracy because they voted only if they were citizens and only if they were old enough to vote. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. For example the united states is a democracy because all the eligible members in the states have vote. The only bad thing is that not all the eligible member vote in all the states. I believe that it would be much better if all the eligible members in every state voted, because it would be more accurate for all the elections and rules that the government puts.

In document A it says that social class was not allowed to interfere with someone's

mert and poverty does not block the way. The second document B the on citizens had to vote if they freeborn can have a citizenship, only if one parent is a citizen or if both parents had to be citizens. Document C shows that women can't vote at all, only 12% of the men that are citizens can vote and that comes out to 29,900 thousand people. Document D Illustrates that demokratia was only ran by male citizens and no women, also the free foreigners and slaves. In document E almost every prominent statesmen in the early 5th century BC took one of these 10-year vacations, courtesy of the athenian people.

Yes the athens was a true democracy in that time because of how they did their voting, about all the peoples citizenships. they show that they have a democracy in all the research that have done and i have read about. The only thing that was bad about their democracy and i didn't agree about was that women did not get to vote for anything. In the end think that Athens had a great democracy but the only fact i didn't like was about the women not getting to vote and have their opinion.