Government

Today we started working on our own textbook project. Here is a sample:

Democracy in Ancient Greece

In Ancient Greece, at one point that practiced a Direct Democracy. The citizens ruled the city-state. Their rule was based on citizenship. They decided on laws based on majority rule. Their method of voting consisted of using white and black stones which would represent yes and no. They would bring up an issue in the agora and various citizens would argue either side until they thought it was fit to vote. When they voted, they would make piles of the stones, white ones meaning yes, and black ones meaning no. After the citizens voted, whichever pile had a larger pile of stones would decide the outcome of the issue. This was first practiced under Cleisthenes in around 500 BCE.