Types of Government
Legal Codes
Who Rules?
100

A group of leaders.

What is an oligarchy?

100

A code written during the Byzantine Empire.

What is Justinian's code?

100

The male ruler of a monarchy.

What is a king?

200

A king or queen who rules through heredity.

What is monarchy?
200

The code in which "an eye for an eye" exists.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

200

The female ruler of Egyptian government.

What is a Pharaoh.
300

A type of government in which citizens are directly involved in government.

What is a Direct Democracy?

300

The set of written laws devised in England.

What is Magna Carta?

300

The male leader during the Byzantine Empire who established a written legal code.

Who was Justinian?

400

A group of rich men.

What is an artistocracy?

400

A code written on a large polished black basalt column.

What is Hammurabi's Code?

400

The leader who took over after his father at the start of an empire, which was originally a republic.

Who was Augustus Caesar?

500

A king or queen who's power is limited by other parts of government.

What is a constitutional monarchy?

500

A code that was made in public so that the Patricians could not change the laws to punish the Plebians.

What were the Twelve Tables?

500
The ruler's authority to rule by the gods. (NOT A SPECIFIC RULER)

What was the Mandate of Heaven?

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