Rise of Democracy
A member of a democracy who has certain rights & responsibilities is called this...
What is a citizen?
Which city-state does the book list as an example of government by democracy?
What is Athens?
Ancient Greek cities were called city-states for this reason...
What is having its own form of government?
What is a monarchy?
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person.
How were Oligarchs DAILY lives different from the poor people they ruled?
What is "They spent their days hunting and taking part in chariot races?"
another word for tyranny
What is a dictatorship?
What the king's council was made of up.
What are aristocrats?
Oligarchs ignored a majority of the people's needs
What made the poor people unhappy?
Daily Double!: What two ways is a tyranny different from a monarchy?
What are a tyrant cannot claim that he has a legal right to rule and a tyrant's son did not inherit his father's power?
What was the lawmaking group in the direct democracy of Athens called?
What is an assembly?
Name one way the King's power changed over time.
What are "the aristocrats wanted the king to be elected, not to inherit his power"?
How were laws enforced?
What was the oligarchs used the force of the army?
How were some tyrants helpful to the poor?
What is they cancelled debts and took land from the aristocrats?
This became one of ancient Greece's great gifts to the modern world...
What is the ideal of democracy?
Name 4 forms of government in order.
What are monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy?
This is how rulers in a monarchy continue their ruling power...
What is by inheriting it?
How did the poor get rid of the oligarchs?
What is the poor joined forces with the army to overthrow the oligarchs?
Most Greek tyrants were this...
What are military leaders?
Daily Double! What was a problem in some democracies?
What are "powerful speakers persuaded ordinary citizens to vote unwisely" or "often, the assembly reversed important decisions after just a few weeks"?