Answer:
In 594 B.C. , Solon was chosen as an Athenian statesman with reformation powers.
Explanation:
Solon was a poet, aristocrat, and statesman of Athens, best known as a legislator and lyric poet. He was born in a noble cradle and his family later impoverished, forcing him at a young age to pursue commerce, a profession considered minor and vile among classical Greek society.
In 594 BCE Solon was chosen as an Athenian statesman with reforming powers. To him we owe the notion of democracy (in Greek, daimos = people and kratia = government, thus forming government of the people). By the time he ascended as leader, Athens was dominated by a hereditary aristocracy, whose members were called eupatrids. The eupatrids owned the best lands and monopolized the power and system in vogue, all based on the wealth of its members. Not surprisingly, such a scenario generated frequent political struggles, as citizens were deprived of any rights, often becoming debtors to euphrates, and as was customary, many ended up as slaves for failing to pay off their extortionate debts.
By taking power, Solon would counteract such a social, economic, and political reality, amnesting peasants' debts, prohibiting debt slavery, abolishing mortgages on people and property, freeing smallholders serving in slavery, imposing limits on extension. of the great agrarian properties, and finally and most importantly, diminishing the powers and arbitrariness of the nobles. It reformed the political institutions and gave the workers the right to vote.
