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23 Cards in this Set
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Absolute Monarchy |
+ruler with complete authority over the government and lives of the people he or she governs
+Spanish |
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Anarchist |
+someone who wants to abolish all government
+Italian socialists |
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Aristocracy |
+government headed by a privileged minority or upper class
+Ancient Greece |
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Autocrat |
+ruler who has complete authority
+Byzantine Empire |
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Autonomy |
+self-rule
+Serbia |
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Bureaucracy |
+system of government that includes different job functions and levels of authority
+Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom |
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Communism |
+form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx; according to Marx, class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole
+Soviet Union |
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Constitutional Government |
+government whose power is defined and limited by law
+Britian |
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Democracy |
+government in which the people hold ruling power
+Ancient Greeks |
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Dictator |
+ruler who has complete control over a government
+Ancient Rome |
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Direct Democracy |
+system of government in which citizens participate directly in the day-to-day affairs of government rather than through elected representatives
+Periclean Athens |
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Fascism |
+any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
+Mussolini |
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Federal Republic |
+government in which power is divided between the national, or federal, government and the states
+United States |
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Feudalism |
+loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord
+The Zhou |
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Limited Monarchy |
+government in which a constitution or legislative body limits the monarch's powers
+England |
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Oligarchy |
+government in which ruling power belongs to a few people
+Ancient Greece |
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Paternalistic |
+the system of governing a country as a father would a child
+Africans |
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Parliamentary Democracy |
+a form of government in which the executive leaders (usually a prime minister and cabinet) are chosen by and responsible to the legislature (parliament), are also members of it
+Britian |
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Republic |
+system of government in which officials are chose by the people
+Ancient Romans |
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Self-Determination |
+right of people to choose their own form of government
+United States |
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Social Contract |
+an agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos
+Thomas Hobbes |
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Theocracy |
+government run by religious leaders
+Switzerland |
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Tyrant |
+in ancient Greece, ruler who gained power by force
+Ancient Greece |
