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Types of Government I
Types of Democracies I
Types of Democracies II
South Africa, Kenya & Nigeria Government
Conflict & Civil Wars
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What is a government ruled by a religious leader  called?
Theocracy
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What is a republic?

A republic is a representative democracy. The citizens elect representatives to represent them to make decisions in the government. A form of democracy.

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Which form of republican democracy is the most common? Presidential or Parliamentary
Parliamentary democracy
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What is a major similarity of the governments of South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya?
They all have republican (democratic) forms of government.
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How did the Europeans divide Africa?
Europeans divided Africa using artificial, political boundaries or borders.
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What is the type of government that is ruled by a king or queen who usually inherits authority and political power?
Absolute Monarchy
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Name two types of republican democracies we discussed in class.
Presidential Democracy

Parliamentary Democracy

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Typically, what is the leader in a Presidential democracy called and how is this leader elected?
The leader is usually called the President and is elected directly by the people.
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Since South Africa has a Parliamentary democracy, how is their legislature and President elected?
their legislature is elected by the people and their President is elected by the legislature

***South Africa is a Parliamentary democracy. However, they call their leader "President" instead of "Prime Minister," like most Parliamentary democracies.

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After European rule, many African countries had their first leader forcibly removed from office. What may have caused this?

A. Africans followed the violent model of rule they learned from the European colonists.

B. The early African leaders were not popular and did not want democratic forms of government.

A. Africans followed the violent model of rule they learned from the European colonists.

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A dictatorship is a government in which the ruler holds on to power by ______________.
Force or military rule
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What is the type of republic where the leader is also the leader of the legislature?
Parliamentary Democracy
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What is the leader of a Parliamentary democracy called and how is this leader elected?
The leader of a Parliamentary democracy is usually called a Prime Minister, and this leader is elected by the legislature, not directly by the citizens.

**The legislature in a Parliamentary democracy is elected directly by the people.

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How are the citizens of Kenya and Nigeria limited in their freedoms?
They have some personal freedoms, but some freedoms are restricted, like freedom of the press and free speech. Citizens can only criticize the government and its leaders in limited amounts.
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Why do the political borders (partitioning) created by European countries cause conflict and civil wars in Africa?

The Europeans created political (artificial) borders without considering (ignoring) the natural boundaries already in place by African ethnic and religious groups.
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Describe the amount of citizen participation in a theocracy, absolute monarchy, and dictatorship.
autocratic, no  citizen participation 
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What is the type of republic where the leader is chosen directly by the people?
Presidential Democracy
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Who is the head of the legislature in a Parliamentary democracy?
The Prime Minister (who is elected by the legislature).
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South Africa and Nigeria both have bicameral legislatures. What is a bicameral legislature?
A bicameral legislature means a two house legislature. South Africa and Nigeria legislatures have two law-making groups elected by the people.  For example, the United States has a bicameral legislature; the US Congress has two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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As a result of continual civil wars and genocide, what did the southern region of the Sudan vote to do in 2011?
create a new, separate country
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What type of government requires citizen participation and receives its power from its citizens?

Democracy

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In a Presidential democracy, what two branches of government are separate, unlike a Parliamentary democracy?
In a Presidential democracy, the legislative and executive branches are separate, unlike a Parliamentary democracy where the legislative and executive branches are combined.
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What branch of government is the President the head of in a Presidential democracy?
the executive branch; Congress is the legislative branch

***In a Presidential democracy the legislative branch and the executive branch are separate. These two branches are combined in a Parliamentary democracy.***

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Kenya has a unicameral legislature. What is a unicameral legislature?
A unicameral legislature means one house. Kenya's legislature has only one law-making group of representatives.
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Has the South Sudan been successful in creating a stable government? In other words, how is South Sudan doing today?
The South Sudan does not have a stable government. It is not peaceful today. A civil war started in South Sudan 2013 among differing political and ethnic groups.