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Everyone knows this term so I'll let it slip by :-)
(If you don't know it please do us all a favor and go back to 4th grade) |
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| I'll let this slip by because we all know this term... right? Right? Good. :-) |
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| A form of rule in which a king and/or queen rules over an enchanted, mystical land with unicorns and princesses and such. |
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| A monarchy where the king does not hold absolute power-- another body holds some power and limits what the king can do. |
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| A form of government in which the upper class or wealthy people rule. |
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| A form of government in which a select few people rule. Like, seriously, a small group. Like, three or four people maybe. |
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| A form of government in which one person holds absolute power. |
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| Democracy at its purest-- basically where the rule really is by the people and by nobody else. Direct democracy implies that the body of government is the people who meet at regular intervals to make political decisions and all that jazz. |
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| "Thing of the People", literally. It's a democracy where there are some officials and a stable, definite government. The U.S.A. is a republic. Sort of. |
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| Autocracy in which the ruler is cruel and unjust and hates on the ppl. |
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| An Athenian stonemason and philosopher who was tried and found guilty for "conspiracy against the people" and forced to drink hemlock. Most of what we know about Socrates comes from his student, Plato. (I want my Plato please!!!) |
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| Philosopher who set up a school called the Academy. How original. No seriously it was. Anyway, he was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. He deeply distrusted democracy. |
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| Student of Plato who did a lot of research on government and politics and such. He was legit. |
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| The original democracy. What you need to know from this term is mainly that the people assembled on a hill called the Pnyx to debate on important issues and make laws. |
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| Consisted of the Senate, the Consuls, the Censors, the Praetors, the Aediles, the Quaestors, the Tribunes, and the Assemblies. I would go over all of it but I need to finish these flashcards so reference p. 22 in your textbook. |
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| Judeo-Christian tradition |
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| Read Chapter 1 section 3. I don't want to go over it all. It starts on p. 28 of your textbook. |
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| "Great Charter". Basically, the first successful attempt to limit the king's power. It established the first limited monarchy and was created by the people because he abused his power, especially by forcing ridiculous taxes on them. |
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| A period of time in which people started to form new views and make progress rather than accepting what they considered as fact. |
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| Believed that people were naturally greedy and that the only way to suppress these greedy bastards was to keep a stranglehold on the people with a bad-ass government. |
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| Believed that people had "natural rights" and that all humans could be reasonable and moral. |
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| Believed that a government with three branches would be most effective. |
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| Believed that people were generally good and that the evils of society were caused by unequal distribution of property and wealth. |
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| Gave the Parliament the right to petition the King and meet without consent of the King. |
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