Athenian democracy 2/4/10

          The Athenian people wanted a kind of goverment that was not a tyranny.  The Athenians revolted against their tyrant leader Iagrius.  He and his guard of Hoplites climbed to the top of the acropolis.  There they held out for two days and two nights, but on the third day an angry mob of Athenian citizens killed them.  The Athenians had exiled a man named Cleisthenes before they over through their leader.  The Athenians brought him back and asked him to make them a fair kind of goverment.  He made the democracy and the simplesystem of voting.  The voting process was to put pebbles in a jar.  A black pebble for no or a white pebble for yes.