government+in+Greece

Just like today, ancient Greece had its own style of government.

They went through many different styles of government and had many different ones at the same time. Most of them still exist and are still used today. Aristotle, the father of todays scientific method, used logic to bring ourder into peoples' governments and came up with his own classification system. Since there were several city-states in Greece, he assigned each city-state a type of government. Throughout time, the city-states went through a number of line up changes (went from government to government).

He divided things up into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies (which a lot of the city-states did not become). At first, most if not all were under a monarchy rule (a king or queen telling people what to do). Over time, the shift started to take place from monarchy to oligarchy, who were just a bunch of arristocrats who told people what to do. They were not kings and queens, but they still had power.

Then, there was an era of the tyrants. These people grew out of the oligarchies by getting the support of the poor without any legality issues.

Then came the democracy era. The first one in the world was in 510 B.C. in the city of Athens. Democracy means "The rule of the people" and had no tyrant or king. This style of government was based on a voting system, the voters being the people who previously had no say in anything. This is also the system a lot of countries use today.

In conclusion, the Greeks went through a significant line up of political changes and ways of living. From being ruled by one who possibly executed you if you opened your mouth to the same person (if they survived) being on the voting counsel, at least one city-state saw it all.