Monarchy
A form of government where power is held by an individual from a particular family.
What is a monarchy?
A system of governance that means “rule of the people.”
What is democracy?
A system of government where one individual rules with absolute power.
What is a dictatorship?
The oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world is in ____.
What is Japan?
Monarchies are often criticized because rulers are not ____ into power.
What is elected?
Monarchies are usually passed down through _____.
What is heredity (royal family / eldest child inherits)?
The two main types of democracy are ____ and ____.
What are direct democracy and representative democracy?
A dictatorship ruled by a small group of people is called a ____.
What is an oligarchy?
In the UK, the monarch has symbolic power, but political power lies with the ____.
What is Parliament (headed by the Prime Minister)?
Successful democracies usually protect what kind of rights?
What are human rights (e.g., free speech, equality, etc.)?
Name one country today that still has a monarch with considerable political influence.
What is Saudi Arabia or Morocco?
In a representative democracy, people usually vote for leaders from ____.
What are political parties?
Name one fascist dictator from the 20th century.
Who is Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini?
In Ancient Athens, what group of 500 citizens prepared laws for the assembly?
What is the Boule?
Totalitarian states often build loyalty to the leader through propaganda and a ____.
What is a cult of personality?
A monarchy where the monarch has symbolic power only is called a ____.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
In 1893, the first country to allow women to vote was ____.
What is New Zealand?
A dictatorship with total control over ideology, propaganda, economy, and people’s lives is called a ____.
What is a totalitarian state?
Mussolini ruled Italy under what political ideology?
What is fascism?
One problem in modern democracies is low participation due to ____.
What is apathy (lack of interest)?
In medieval Europe, monarchs claimed power through the “Divine Right of Kings.” In China, what was the similar belief?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
In Ancient Athens, the assembly where citizens voted on war and laws was called the ____.
What is the Ekklesia?
The dictatorship in North Korea today is based on the ideology of ____.
What is Juche (self-reliance)?
After WWII, Japan’s emperor lost absolute power because of a new constitution that made him mostly a ____ figure.
What is a symbolic (or ceremonial) figure?
Totalitarian states often control what major part of society to limit freedoms and increase government power?
What is the economy?