Greek democracy was able to co-exist with military needs and social class divisions by the government needing people to work according to their role in society and giving people an option to work their way up into another social class. The Greek democracy has some very democratic features and some that are not but there overall the idea of all people having a say so and working together as one whole is present. Now, the military will always needed a leader to help guide them and someone to tell them what to do. Well if those leaders are going to be doing that, then there could be a chance where that type of authority could get to their head. Dealing with social class divisions, there were slaves, lower class people, middle class people, and the upper…show more content… From the philosopher Aristotle, he propounded the belief that slaves were demonstrably inferior, a product of their environment and inherited characteristics. Greeks persuaded themselves that they who had the best environment and characteristics and the purest bloodline and were, therefore, born to rule. The lower class may had sold cloth they had made or other items and were retailers of food. For the middle class, they consisted of ¨professional men¨ who were merchants, contractors, manufacturers, managers, tradesmen, craftsmen, and artists. The entire ceramic industry was owned by the middle class. This working class made sure that the navy fleet was well-maintained, the empire was supported through heavy taxes, and the commercial supremacy of their town was well-kept. This is one of the reasons explained on how the Greek government, social class divisions, and military needs could co-exist. In society and government, lower class Athenians were able to improve their social position by obtaining land in the subject states. Pericles gave more governing power to bodies that represented the citizenship as a whole, known as the
