s showed how the Greek city states were now becoming more and more diffused with other nations. This would produce two nations, being Athens and Sparta that would signify culture and society for the Greek states. One of the major, most famous Greek city states that was affected by trade, and had a very rich social and cultural state was Athens.
             Athens was the intellectual center of Greece. It was a center for thought and learning and a cultural powerhouse. In 508 Athens also became one of the first societies to introduce democracy to the world. (Nogara 1) Even though those are very important parts of a society, especially ones in ancient Greece, there's more in both the culture and society of one of the original Greek city states. The reason that Athens changed from a Monarchy which was their original government and was for many years, was for three main reasons. The first was that the lower powered people being the merchants and soldiers resented the fact that the nobles had so much more power than them. In other societies and cultures that had stricter governments this is how it went for the few middle class people that were present. For the first time a middle class was forming from the creation of jobs that the New Greek city states were forming from all the new jobs in trade and commerce. Second, like in a democracy which was new to these people considering they were the first to have it were the foreign artisans. This meant that the people who wanted to become citizens could now become ones of the Greek city states. Thus was a revolutionary process or thought that was never done before because of the overwhelming power of the government of past societies. People from other countries unlike in a democracy could not vote or participate. The third reason for the revolutionary change of the government was the farmers. The farmers in the past had to sell their land many times because of the lack of money that they had for ...