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Introduction
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
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A word that the Greeks used to describe their hometown's.
What is a city-state?
100
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of a king or a monarch.
What is monarchy?
100
A small group of wealthy men.
What is a oligarch?
100
A form of government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person who is not a lawful king.
What is a tyranny?
100
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of the citizens during that time period.
What is a democracy?
200
The geographical feature that isolated many Greek communities from one another.
What are mountains?
200
Who was the power passed onto after a king died?
What is the oldest son?
200
Differences between a monarchy and a tyranny
What is a ruler that cannot claim that the laws of the land that give him the right to rule. There are no legal limits on his powers. Also, a tyrant’s son does not usually inherit his father’s power.
300
A similarity between the Greek communities.
What is language?
300
Wealthy men who advised the king.
What is aristocrats?
300
The way the oligarchs ruled.
What is favoring the rich and decreasing the wealth of the poor even more?
300
Dictatorship
What is another name for a tyrant?
300
A democracy in which the people vote directly on laws.
What is a direct democracy?
400
The order that the Greek governments developed in.
What is monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and then democracy.
400
The king's powers were...
What is the authority to make laws and act as judges. They also could conduct religious ceremonies. They led their armies during wars. They could use force to punish people who disobeyed the laws or didn’t pay their taxes.
400
They often spent their days either hunting or taking part in chariot races. In the evenings, they might host or attend parties, during which slaves and hired performers entertained guests with music, dance, and acrobatics.
What is a comfortable life?
400
Military leaders
What were most tyrants previously?
400
A representative democracy.
What is the U.S?
500
What each community had.
What is surrounding farmland and a settlement, their own money and laws?
500
The time period that monarchs ruled in ancient Greece.
What is 2000 to 800 B.C.E?
500
The way oligarchy ended.
What is the event of the poor turning to other leaders who promised them more rights and throwing the oligarchs out of power?
500
A tyrant that ruled harshly.
Who was Hippias?
500
A great gift from the modern world.
What is a Democracy?