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THE STATE.EVOLUTION
QUESTIONS
Question | Answer |
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What is the definition of GOVERNMENT? | The activities, methods, and principles involved in managing a political entity, usually a state. |
What is the definition of TOKEN LINK? | Relationship based on one entity's subordination to another entity, usually as part of a vow of loyalty. |
What is the definition of PROTECTORATE? | A country that is controlled and defended by a more powerful country. |
What is the definition of DOMINION? | A self-governing nation that acknowledges as chief of state the leader of another nation. |
What is the definition of COLONIAL DEPENDENCY? | A territory where the responsibilities of government are vested in an external power. |
What is the definition of COLONY? | A territory occupied by a colonizing state involving the establishment of settlements and extraction of economic resources. |
What is the definition of SOCIETY? | People in several large organized communities who live on a territory. |
What is Aristotle's theory about the emergence of city states? | Aristotle saw the emergence of city-states in four phases. List the four phases and say what their characteristics are! |
What is Plato's ideal state vision? | A government that is by the people and for the people. |
Which were the two groups of individual human relationships considered by Aristotle to be at the base of any human community? | These were the relationships between men and women and between masters and slaves. |
What constituted the basis for Aristotle's taxonomy of community development? | His research on the natural world. |
What is the meaning of Zoon Politicon? | Humans are a species at the top of the natural world (zoon) able of rational thinking and favouring existence in communities (politikon). |
What is the definition of CITY-STATE? | A complete and self-sufficient community, which originated as the logical culmination of natural order, and survived because it was the best guarantee of a good life for its citizens. |
What is the definition of DYNASTY? | A series of rulers who all belong to the same family. |