in the golden age athens only________could exercise the right to vote.?

Question

male landowners
adult males and females
citizens with exception of slaves
elected representatives

Answer 1

This is a poorly written question you have been given. "Male landowners" is close but not correct, because citizenship was required, not merely property ownership in the city (otherwise foreigners could have voted). However, "citizens with exception of slaves" makes the incorrect assumption that slaves were regarded as citizens, and they certainly were not. "Citizens" itself required being male, free, and owning property (like the first choice) but also required a person to be allegiant to the polis, usually having been born there or having fought in its military. Therefore, none of the choices you have been given is completely accurate. The third comes closest, despite its incorrect assumption about slaves.

Answer 2

The Athenian democracy (sometimes called classical democracy) was the democratic system developed in the Greek city-state of Athens (comprising the central city-state of Athens and its surrounding territory Attica). Athens was one of the very first known democracies, and probably the most important in ancient times. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most but not all following an Athenian model, but none were as powerful or as stable (or, relatively speaking, as well-documented) as that of Athens. It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy where the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open to all inhabitants of Attica, but the in-group of participants was constituted with no reference to economic class and they participated on a scale that was truly phenomenal. Never before had so many people spent so much of their time in governing themselves.

Answer 3

male landowners
just like when the USA started.

Answer 4

citizens ...