Question

Which of the following reforms did Cleisthenes institute? He reorganized the governing body to be more representative of the entire city He based classes on agriculture production not birth. He limited voting rights to only those born to two Athenian parents. He extended the voting rights to foreign craftsmen in Athens

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The reforms of Cleisthenes

In 508, after a short period of old-fashioned aristocratic party struggles, the Athenian state was comprehensively reformed by Cleisthenes, whom Herodotus calls “the man who introduced the tribes and the democracy,” in that order. The order is important. Cleisthenes’ basic reform was to reorganize the entire citizen body into 10 new tribes, each of which was to contain elements drawn from the whole of Attica. These tribes, organized initially on nothing more than residence and not on the old four Ionian tribes based purely on descent, would from then on determine whether or not a man was Athenian and so fix his eligibility for military service.