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02_2 The Origins and Evolution of Government
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- Q1created the first empireSargon of Akkad30s
- Q2a sovereign state consisting of a city and its surrounding territorycity-state30s
- Q3a democratic form of government in which citizens make public decisions directly, either in a popular assembly or through a popular votedirect democracy30s
- Q4"rule by law"; a nation in which supreme power rests with the citizens and is exercised by their elected representatives (another name for an indirect or representative democracy)republic30s
- Q5a democratic form of government in which elected representatives make public decisions on behalf of the citizensindirect democracy (or representative democracy)30s
- Q6an economic and political system of the European Middle Ages in which landowners granted land to tenants in return for military assistance and other servicesfeudalism30s
- Q7a legislative assembly in which elected representatives debate and vote on proposed lawsparliaments30s
- Q8a government led by a hereditary ruler who claims unlimited powersabsolute monarchy30s
- Q9one who has total power and rules brutallydespot30s
- Q10a system of government in which the powers of a monarch are limited by a constitution, either written or unwrittenconstitutional monarchy30s
- Q11a polity without a monarch in which the basic rules of politics are laid out in a constitutionconstitutional democracy / republic30s
- Q12a system of government in which the state exercises broad control over the lives of its citizensauthoritarian regime30s
- Q13an extreme form of authoritarian rule in which the state seeks to control every aspect of its citizens' livestotalitarianism30s
- Q14a political system in which the state controls all property; the theories developed by Karl Marx regarding the development of an ideal, classless societycommunism30s
- Q15a totalitarian system in which businesses remain in private hands but under government controlfascism30s