Inclusion and Exclusion in Athens · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Who was left out of Athens's democracy?

History · Ancient Greece & Rome · ages 11-13
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Women from citizen families could speak in the Assembly, even though they could not vote.

    Circle one:   True   False

  2. Every adult living in Athens could vote in its democracy.

    Circle one:   True   False

  3. Out of every 10 adults in Athens, about how many could NOT vote?

    Answer: ______________

  4. Enslaved people may have made up about one third of the population of Athens. If Athens had about 300,000 people, about how many people were enslaved?

    Answer: ______________

  5. A town in ancient Attica has 100 adults. Using the roughly 30% citizen figure, about how many could vote in the Assembly?

    Answer: ______________

  6. A town in Attica has 50 adults. Using Athens's citizen share of about 3 in 10, about how many adults there could NOT vote?

    Answer: ______________

  7. Which of these things could a metic in Athens actually do?

    • Vote in the Assembly
    • Speak in the Assembly
    • Pay taxes and fight in Athens's army

  8. Look at the circle. It shows how many out of 10 adults in Athens could vote. What fraction could vote?

    • 3 out of 10
    • 7 out of 10
    • 5 out of 10

  9. Compared to most modern representative democracies, the share of Athens's population who could vote was...

    • Much larger, since every resident had a vote
    • About the same, since modern countries also exclude most adults
    • Much smaller, since women, enslaved people, and metics could not vote

  10. In Athens, about 3 out of every 10 adults could vote. In a modern democracy, about 9 out of every 10 adult citizens can vote. How many more adults per 10 can vote in the modern democracy?

    Answer: ______________

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  1. False · Women in Athens could not vote or speak in the Assembly, even if they came from citizen families.
  2. False · Only about 3 out of 10 adults, the free adult male citizens, could vote.
  3. 7 · About 3 out of 10 adults could vote, so about 7 out of 10 could not.
  4. 100000 · One third means one out of every three people. Dividing 300,000 into 3 equal parts gives 100,000.
  5. 30 · 30% of 100 is 30, so about 30 adults could vote.
  6. 35 · If about 3 in 10 could vote, then about 7 in 10 could not. 50 is 5 groups of 10, and 5 times 7 is 35.
  7. Pay taxes and fight in Athens's army · Metics could live and work in Athens, pay taxes, and fight in the army. What they could never do was become citizens and take part in the Assembly.
  8. 3 out of 10 · Roughly 30%, or 3 out of 10, adults were citizens who could vote.
  9. Much smaller, since women, enslaved people, and metics could not vote · Modern democracies generally give voting rights to nearly all adult citizens, unlike Athens's narrow 30%.
  10. 6 · 9 minus 3 is 6. In every group of 10 adults, the modern democracy lets about 6 more people vote than Athens did.
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