what was ancient greece's law like?

Answer 1

Ancient Greece was not unified. Greece was a sprawling collection of small city-states that stretched from eastern Spain through North Africa and Italy, over the region we now know as Greece, across Turkey and all around the shores of the Black Sea. Some Greek cities were ruled by kings who had absolute power over life and death, some had elected bodies (the Greeks invented democracy), some had regular military overthrows of the government, and some changed government so often that it's hard to say what they were about.

The city-state of Athens was the birthplace of democracy. It was the first retion on earth to elect its own government, and it also invented trial by jury. These concepts were very different from how we recognize them now, and it's important to remember that the democratic period in Greece lasted less than two generations. War with Sparta, which was ruled by the military, undermined the stability and prosperity of Athens, and in an attempt to bring this instability to an end, the people elected a king.

Be careful, when talking about ancient Greek government, not to think there was one massive Greek culture. In fact the only trait the ancient Greek city-states had in common was that they spoke the Greek language. They disagreed on how to run a government, they often went to war with each other, and they didn't trust each other—which is why, in the end, they were conquered by the Persians and the Romans.

Answer 2

kind of like the communists.