Types of Government
This is a government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Name of a Greek city state.
What is a polis?
New government system created due to weak European central governments and to prevent further invasions.
What is feudalism?
Belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
These people were bound to the land and accepted their fate of being there.
Who are serfs?
Rule by the people.
What is a democracy?
Hilltop place where people met to discuss government issues.
What is an acropolis?
Economic system during the feudal era.
What is manorialism?
Social structure system that categories people based on social rankings.
What is a caste system?
Belief in more than one or many gods.
What is polytheism?
Rule by a few or small group military group.
What is an oligarchy?
Geographical landmark that made it difficult to invade Greek city states.
What are mountains?
The king gave this to vassals in exchange for military protection and loyalty.
What is a fief?
The 00 latitude marker that separates the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Buddha's word for the release of selfishness and pain.
What is nirvana?
Rule by a few usually wealthy or of noble decent.
What is an aristocracy?
Tyrant of ancient Greek that instituted a harsh slave-debt law and attempted to exterminate the lower class.
Who is Draco?
Protectors of the manor.
What is a knight?
These lines run from north to south but are measured from east to west.
What are lines of longitude?
In order to reach nirvana, one must follow these.
What is the Eightfold Path?
Two types of government that are around today that have foundations in ancient Athens.
Need both answers for points.
What are direct and representative democracy?
Ancient Greek leader who repealed debt-slave law and created a caste system built on wealth.
Who is Solon?
Double your points! Describe the feudal caste system by properly telling me the exchanges at each level of the caste system.
king - vassal
vassal - knight
knight - peasants
The Buddha saw these three people as he wondered to reach enlightenment.
Who are a corpse, an old man, a sick man?
Code of ethics for knights.
What is chivalry?