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    How much do you know about Classical Greece?

    What was the system of ostracism in Athens?

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    A method for choosing leaders
    A punishment for criminals
    A procedure to exile citizens considered a threat to democracyCorrect
    A form of voting in the assembly

    Ostracism was an Athenian democratic procedure by which any citizen, considered a threat to the political stability of the city, could be exiled for ten years without loss of property.