What change in Athens's democracy did Cleisthenes implement by about 500 B.C.E.?
A) He established a four-hundred-man ruling council whose members ran for election annually and represented the entire citizenry.
B) He organized popularly elected neighborhood advisory groups who could be called on to decide on important legislation when the appointed legislature was deadlocked.
C) He instituted political rights, including the right to vote, for all female citizens who could trace their genealogy back two generations.
D) He established a ruling council of five hundred individuals chosen annually by lottery and representing the demes in proportion to the size of their populations.
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