NG Ch. 9 Section 1.1

Name the Greek leader that cancelled debts, freed enslaved farmers, and abolished unfair payment to landowners.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

He reduced the power of the aristocracy and organized citizens into four classes based on wealth

• Pericles

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

Athens established the world's first democracy.

• True

• False

Under this mans rule citizens were organized into groups based on where they lived.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

Under his rule the assembly debated openly and heard court cases.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

This man created a limited democracy where only male property owners born in Athens could participate in the assembly.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

True or False Women, foreigners, and slaves have political rights in a limited democracy.

• True

• False

This leader transformed Athens after the Persian Wars to a center of learning , creativity, and beauty.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

This leader guided Athens through the Golden Age.

• Solon

• Cleisthenes

• Pericles

True or False Pericles paid jurors, which allowed poor citizens to take time off to serve the state.

• True

• False