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| How did the power evolve, switching from a monarchy to an oligarchy? Be as specific as possible. |
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| The power evolved between a monarchy and an oligarchy because the monarchy had a powerful group of rich, dominant, powerful people which helped the monarchy make decisions and backed up the monarchy. This group of rich, powerful, dominant people were called aristocrats. In most city-states, aristocrats realized that, as a group, they could be stronger than the monarchy himself, and could overthrow him easily. Hence, the aristocrats became jealous of the monarchy's power and were eager to overthrow him. So, the aristocrats overthrew the monarchy as a group.When the aristocrats overthrew the monarchy, they ruled over the whole city-state themselves, which consisted of three people, and were called the oligarchs instead of the aristocrats. |
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| How and why did the power evolve from an oligarchy to a tyranny? Be as specific as possible. |
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| The power evolved from an oligarchy to a tyranny because the oligarchs treated the poor too unfairly (ignoring their needs, passing laws poor did not like, accomplshed making the poor more poor, etc.). The poor soon wanted to revolt, so the poor turned to leaders who promised to improve their lives and take the poor out of their misery. Those leaders usually had some connection with the army or were in the army at one point in their lives. These leaders would use their soldiers to throw the oligarchs from power, ruining their power. These leaders pretty much took away all power from the ruling hands and put the ruling power into their hands, which meant that these people were called tyrants, who practiced tyranny. |
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| How and why did the ruling power in Ancient Greece evolve from a tyranny to a democracy? Be as specific as possible. |
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| The ruling power evolved from a tyranny to a democracy because some tyrants were terrible brutes and snobs, who ruled their people unfairly, unjustly, and harshly, opposite of what the tyrants originally pledged to do. Soon, the whole city-state would become unhappy with how the tyrant ruled and would vow to revolt. When the tyrant was thrown out from power, some city-states (like Athens) tried a new form of government, a form of government which would share power between each and every citizen. This form of government was called a democracy, like what the United States of America had today. |
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| What is a democracy? What made people become unsatisfied and unhappy with a democracy? What type of democracy did Athens have? |
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| A democracy is a type of power where all the citizens of the city-state had a share in what the ruling power would be and how the ruling power would affect the citizens. The factor which made people unhappy and unsatisfied with a democracy was that rarely, but still often, a powerful speaker urged a regular citizen to vote unwisely, or changed the ordinary citizne's mind about who to vote for. Also, in some city-states the Assembly would reverse important decisions made by the democracy in just a matter of a few weeks.Because of these factors, citizens looked back to earlier forms of government, such as oligarchies or monarchies. Athens's form of democracy was called a "direct democracy" where every citizen could vote on every issue. |
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| What was a monarchy? How many rulers were there in a monarchy? Who did kings have councils with so the kings could be advised? |
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| A monarchy was a system of Ancient Greek government where the ruling power of the city-state was in the hands of only one powerful leader. The monarchy was the only one who could make the decisions for the city-state (though he was advised), the only one who could create and pass laws for the city-state, and the only one who could oversee or rule the city-state. Hence, the monarchy was the only person who could hold any reasonable amount of power. When kings needed to be advised, kings called on the next highest group in the Greek social class: the aristocrats. The kings often had councils with the aristocrats. |
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| What was an oligarchy? Who did the oligarchs show favoritism to and show non-favoritism to? How many people ruled in an oligarchy? |
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| An oligarchy was a system of government where three people were the ruling power. In an oligarchy, the three people were wealthy folk, who were aristocrats and had very comfortable, luxurious lives (unlike the poor farmers and workers). The oligarchs showed too much favoritism to the rich, making them richer and having more luxurious lives. The oligarchs showed non-favoritism to the poor, causing them the be more poorer (which later led to the end of the oligarchs). Three to five people ruled in an oligarchy, although, normally an oligarch consisted of three wealthy folk. |
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| What was a tyranny? How did a tyranny recieve power? How was a tyranny different from a monarchy? How many people ruled in a tyranny? |
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| In a tyranny, one person forced the unfair oligarchs out of power and took the power himself. Sometimes, like the Hippias and Hipparchus partnership, a tyranny consisted of two people, but mostly just one person ruled. A tyranny is the same as a monarchy except for two factors: one, a tyrant cannot claim that he has a lawful right to rule, for tyrants rule illegally. Two, a tyrant usually is not allowed to let his oldest son inherit power, like the availability monarchs had. |
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| What is the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy? Be specific and name the details. |
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| The difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy is that a direct democracy allows every citizen to vote on every law directly, instead of a representative democracy, where a person votes for a representative to choose and make the laws in what that representative believes the people who voted for him/her want, or in their name. Hence, in a direct democracy, people can directly vote for the laws they approve, while in a representative democracy, people vote for the representative who shows their opinion on laws the most. |
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| What is a direct democracy? What is a representative democracy? Be specific and name all of the details. |
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| A direct democracy is a type of democracy where one votes directly for the laws they approve and want to be passed. So a direct democracy would be where one votes for the law that person approves and understands. A representative democracy is a democracy where a person votes for a representative who shows the same opinion that voter has on laws. In a representative democracy, the representative votes in their name, or what the representative believes the law the most people want or approve. |
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| In Ancient Greece and Athens, how did a direct democracy work or function? Be specific and name all the details. |
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| In Ancient Greece and Athens, a direct democracy worked by first, by having the Council of 500 be elected. The Council of 500 was chosen by using a tool, and randomly inserting names of men over thirty years old into the slots of the tool. When this was done, marbles were inserted into a chute and the names next to a white marble WOULDN'T be attending the Council of 500. The ones who would attend the Council of 500 would propose laws on day-to-day business of the government. The proposed laws would be announced to the Assembly to vote on. The Assembly was a lawmaking group which consisted 6,000 people who were only men above the age of 18. The Assembly people voted and debated on laws announced by the Council of 500. Also, in Assemblies, people were free to speak about what laws they, themselves approved and liked. New laws were either passed or debated and not passed in Assemblies. |
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