Help with World History?

Only citizens could vote, i.e. "free men". Men who composed the armies and took responsibility for their families and home were considered citizens. The reason females and slaves couldn't vote was because they didn't fight and die for the community like the males did. There was usually a council of 400 citizens in charge, which rotated every year (so you had a 50/50 chance of being elected onto the council). By the 400's, elections were done away with. You had something called "shame culture" which kept people in line through guilt/shame of bad behavior. If a crime was committed against someone, the family of the victim would round up the perp and drag them to the council for punishment (if they lived through the initial beating of course lol). I don't know if there could have been "leaders" because they were elected, not totalitarian. Like I said, government was a communal effort. Athens (and Sparta) has always been considered the weirdo Greek state which every other polis (community, not just a city-state) would shake their heads at. Mainly because it was a democracy (the worst form of government according to Plato) and freaking huge... oh and the Delian League. They kind pissed a lot of people off with that stunt.