The great Athenian Democracy (Adam R)

I think that Athens was not fair because a third of the population in Athens was slaves. 2 thirds were men and women. women were already disqualified because the Athenians believed that women were possessed. But not only did you have to be male to vote, you mother and father both had to be born in Athens, AND you had to have completed your military training to be 100% a citizen. So you HAD to be a citizen to vote. But surprisingly, 6000 citizens were able to vote. Anyway back to women being possessed. so since women were thought to be possessed they were needed to be controlled to they made women have to wear special clothes that hid there faces from people. But they would only show there faces to their husbands. So back to slaves. Slave were mostly prisoners of war and once they were captured they lost all their rights, so if they were once free men/women, they would have lost lots of their rights. They had lots of watchtowers to keep their prisoners/slaves under 24 hour watch. They were called "man footed things"(stupid name right?). Anyway, back to voting. Athens would guesstimate the vote and see witch side won. Special people who were especially skilled would guesstimate. they would vote on how they would run their lives. If the people REALLY disliked an opinion, they would boo him down. so those are the reasons i think Athens was unfair but others might think differently. This is my blog post about Athens by Adam R.