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Question | Answer |
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The way the community is governed | Goverment |
A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent | Democracy |
Government by a special few | Oligarchy |
A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class | Aristocracy |
members from the community who owe loyalty to the government and are entitled to protection from it | Citizens |
A type democracy in which the people as a whole make direct decisions, rather than have those decisions made for them | Direct democracy |
Stated ruled over by a single person as a king or queen | Monarchy |
Someone who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society and morality | Philosophers |
Student of socrates wrote the republic about the perfectly governed society | Plato |
The concept that John Locke stated. all people are born with certain rights such as life liberty and property | Natural laws |
Roman aristocrats over through a tyrant and created a new government and called it a republic | Republic |
The supreme governing body made up only of aristocrats | Senate |
Collection of laws that were taken from Roman law so that they could be comprehended easily | Code of Justinian |
Successful Byzantine emperor | Justinian |
Holy Hebrew book | Torah |
Founder of Judaism | Abraham |
Supernatural being, believed to be omnipotent | God |
A monotheistic religion | Judaism |
The word of god | Bible |
Hebrew prophet, led the israelites from Egypt across the red sea | Moses |
A set of laws for responsible actions | Ten commandments |
People who receive messages from god | Prophets |
Believed to be the son of god | Jesus of Nazareth |
Religion based on the teachings of jesus | Christianity |
Religion based on the teachings of muhammad | Islam |
They only believe in one god | Monotheistic Religion |
Judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Common law |
English documents that limited the power of kings | Magna carta |
Guaranteed certain rights to english citizens | English bill of rights |