What Change in Athens's Democracy Did Cleisthenes Implement by About

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Multiple Choice

What change in Athens's democracy did Cleisthenes implement by about 500 B.C.E.?

• A) He established a four-hundred-man ruling council whose members ran for election annually and represented the entire citizenry.
• B) He organized popularly elected neighborhood advisory groups who could be called on to decide on important legislation when the appointed legislature was deadlocked.
• C) He instituted political rights, including the right to vote, for all female citizens who could trace their genealogy back two generations.
• D) He established a ruling council of five hundred individuals chosen annually by lottery and representing the demes in proportion to the size of their populations.

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