Grecian Government

After the Dark ages Greece went through several changes in their government. First there arose the monarchy. where all of the polises were ruled by a king, who were similar to our modern day president. They were elected and they reigned for a certain period of time.
         
         The Monarchy was followed by the aristocracy beginning around 750 B.C, where several nobles ruled over the people, then the Tyrants came into power. Tyrants in the Greek sense were just ruler who came into power by unusual means. These tyrants came to power through force, and appealed to the commoners and even began to even out the levels of authority. Some tyrants such as Solon made it so that the population grew by narrowing down the requirements for citizenship. Cleisthenes then took over Greece and created the Democracy, where all of the people ruled, not just one person, or a select few.