Types of Government
Ruled by a small group.
What is an oligarchy?
This philosophy teaches that people can gain peace and happiness by becoming one with the "Way." It is a universal force connected to nature that creates order for all things.
What is Daoism/Taoism?
A set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BCE.
What is the Twelve Tables?
A form of government ruled by a dictator (a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.)
What is a dictatorship?
Ruled by no one; a society without a government.
What is an anarchy?
Rule by religious laws and leaders. Can coincide with other governments, but the religion has the most power.
What is theocracy?
A strict, literal, or excessive compliance to the law or to a religious or moral code.
What is legalism?
A system for interpreting and enforcing the laws.
What is legal system/code?
Punishments under Hammurabi's Code would MOST likely be mildest is the victim was
Enslaved
The managing body of a nation, state or community.
What is a government?
All citizens have a chance to participate in government and vote directly.
What is direct democracy?
A philosophy that defines proper conduct for people and governments. It states people are naturally good and should concentrate on improving their behavior and doing what they know is right.
What is Confucianism?
A set of 282 rules or laws enacted by the Babylonian King Hammurabi; the code governed the people living in his fast-growing empire. Where the phrase an "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" originated from.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
People vote for representatives to write and vote on laws.
What is representative democracy?
Legalism is a philosophy based on the ideas of this Chinese man who lived during the Zhou Dynasty around 280 to 233 B.C.E.
Who is Han Fei?
System of government with one ruler.
What is an autocracy?
A rule by members of the same family.
What is a dynasty?
The first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law; issued in June 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
A person who has rights, protection and responsibilities in their native land.
Who is a citizen?
System of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state; usually through elected officials.
What is a democracy?
A form of government in which a person, the monarch (king, queen, emperor), is head of state for life or until abdication.
What is a monarchy?
In order to keep people from rebelling against the Qin Dynasty, the leader implemented Legalism into his government.
Who is Shi Huangdi?
The rules established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
What are laws?
A legal code consisting of the various sets of laws and legal interpretations collected and codified by scholars under the direction of Byzantine Emperor Justinian.
What is the Justinian Code?
Power is in the hands of a small group of wealthy and educated citizens and usually passed from generation to generation in these families.
What is aristocracy?