Part 1: Need for Governments
Manage countries.
What is government?
A _______ is a person, such as a king or queen, who reigns over a kingdom or an empire.
What is a monarch?
A system of government where people either rule directly or elect officials who act on their behalf.
What is a Democratic Government or Democracy?
Citizens do not have the power to rule.
What is a Nondemocratic Government?
Today, governments at the national, state, and local levels may all collect _____ - use tax dollars to provide goods and services, such as national defense, public schools, police protection, and roads.
What is Taxes?
______ is the understanding of both citizenship and government.
What is civics?
Earliest form of government was based upon family called the _____________.
What is a kinship system?
An ________ is a type of dictatorship in which all power is concentrated in a small group of people.
What is oligarchy?
In the past, many monarchies were __________________ , meaning they had full control of the government.
What is absolute monarchies?
Tax on business revenue and personal income.
What is Income Tax?
Need to know how their government works and are legally recognized members of a country.
What is a citizens?
The right to rule might be passed down through a powerful family, creating a _______.
What is dynasty?
The word _________ comes from an ancient Greek term meaning “rule of the people.”
What is democracy?
___________ is one of a few modern countries where the monarch still has full control.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Tax on the value of real estate and other property.
What is Property Tax?
Government provides a way for people to unite, solve problems, and cooperate to make lives easier and safer.
What is helping people cooperate?
A _________ is a government controlled by one or more religious leaders who claim to rule on behalf of God or the gods wore shipped in their country.
What is theocracy?
the people agreed for their elected leaders to rule them. This system of government is also known as a ________, like the U.S. for example is a republic. However, democracy would not last in ancient Rome.
What is republic?
After the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 400s, European countries were ruled by __________.
What is monarchies?
Tax on the purchase of goods and services.
What is Sales tax?
A ____________, or a written plan of government, rule many countries around the world.
What is constitution?
A _________ is an independent city with its own government.
What is city-state?
_______________________ a form of democracy.
(hint: very long word)
What is representative democracy?
Several different forms of government developed among the city-states of _____________.
What is ancient Greece?
Before the invention of money, governments used to collect taxes in the form of ____________.
What are goods and services?