Forms of Government
This form of government is ruled by one person, often inheriting their position and lasting until death or abdication
What is Monarchy?
A type of punishment by the Christian Church for those who are charged with heresy.
What is excommunication?
This term refers to a city and surrounding countryside including villages and served as the basis for political organization in areas around the Aegean Sea
What is a Polis/ Greek City-State?
This Athenian assembly, open to all citizens, was responsible for making decisions affecting the city, including war, nominating magistrates, and lawmaking.
What is The Ecclesia?
These four countries dominated colonization
What is England, France, Portugal, and Spain
This form of government allows citizens to decide on policy initiatives directly
What is Direct Democracy?
Martin Luther disagreed with these money-bought "saviors"
What are Indulgences?
This nobleman based his new laws on the idea that all members of Athenian city-state were equal under law, regardless of wealth or position.
Who is Draco?
This reformer, considered to have brought democracy to Classical Greece and the world, allowed all citizens to submit new laws for debate in the assembly.
Who is Cleisthenes?
A Spanish-based explorer who sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Colombus?
"Little to no freedom for citizens who all must adhere to the religion." This is a weakness of this form of government.
What is Theocracy?
This innovation helped spread awareness of the Church's abuses of power.
What is the Printing Press?
This reformer overturned and outlawed debt slavery, making it so no citizen could own another.
Who is Solon?
This group in the Roman Republic is made up of elected tribunes and made laws for lower classes and later the whole republic.
What is the Plebeian Assembly?
The explorer who has two names and "discovered" a New Land.
Who is Cabot? (AKA Giovanni Caboto)
"Decisions made quickly. Rulers don’t need to worry about getting re-elected" This is a strength of this form of government.
What is Dictatorship/Autocracy?
This person believed in Justification By Faith, which means that humans are not saved through their good works but through their faith in God.
Who is Martin Luther?
These groups were NOT considered citizens in the Roman Republic.
Who are Women, Slaves, and Freedmen.
These displayed tablets allowed all free citizens to have the right to protected under the law.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This group of people were decimated by Europeans, from a combined impact of disease, overwork, and massacres.
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
This European country is known for using direct democracy in some of its cantons, including Appenzell Innerrhoden.
What is Switzerland?
Idea that the church should not dictate all aspects of public life
In Athens, citizenship was initially based on these two factors before reforms expanded rights.
What is land ownership and wealth?
These four factors led to the collapse of the Roman Republic.
What is Military Upheaval, Economic Instability, Caesar's Reforms, and Caesar's Death?
Massive wealth was accrued to European colonizers due to trade in what two/three things?
What are goods, spices, and precious metals?