Which of the following were characteristics of Athenian democracy? Select the three correct answers.

A. The government consisted of an assembly, a council, and courts.

B. The assembly met only once a year to discuss matters.

C. Only free adult males made up the assembly.

D. The citizens elected leaders to discuss important matters.

E. Women, slaves, and foreigners were not allowed to participate.

A. The government consisted of an assembly, a council, and courts.

C. Only free adult males made up the assembly.

D. The citizens elected leaders to discuss important matters.

E. Women, slaves, and foreigners were not allowed to participate.

Explanation:

Around 594 to 321 BC, in the Athenian polis, there was a democratic form of government. It is called the world's first democratic system. Any citizen had the right (and even the obligation) to participate in the work of the National Assembly. As it is noted by experts, in the heyday of Athenian democracy, about a third of citizens simultaneously held one or another public office.

Ancient Greek democracy was a limited democracy of only free citizens, leaving without the political rights slaves and women, who constituted the vast majority of the population; this ancient democracy was slave-owning democracy.

The national assembly met every 8-9 days, and several thousand people took part in it. Between the meetings of the ecclesia, the "council of five hundred," was engaged in current affairs. Members of the council were elected by lot of citizens no younger than 30 years old. Litigation was heard in a "jury trial." It consisted of 6,000 people who were chosen by lot.