Is Athenian democracy fair? By Kate 

In part one of our project we watched a video on how the Athenians created direct democracy to be extremely fair. It emphasized the fact that the man that won the war was the man who let everyone join him. Then, in this videos it talks about how things weren't as fair as we thought they would be. For our direct democracy on the island we wanted everyone to vote no matter what. So when we started to study Athenian democracy we thought it would be similar. When we watched the video though we realized things were quite different. The Athenians had slaves who were very mistreated and they believed women were evil demons! So obviously they couldn't vote. I think it is unfair that the slaves and women couldn't vote, but I see what the Athenians are thinking. They thought that the slaves were now less than a man and that, once again, women were demons. Would you let someone vote if you thought they were a demon? So I think that Athenian democracy is fair just based on their beliefs.