Development of Democracy

  • 2000 BCE

    Monarchy

    Monarchy
    A. The person that had the ruling power was the great king.
    B. The methods that the Greek kings used is that they had artisocrats to advise them.
    C. The end of the type of government was that the artisocrats soon realized that as a group, they were stronger than their kings. They wanted a share of the kings power.
    D. One of the countries that still use monarchy today are Canda.
  • 800 BCE

    Oligarchy

    Oligarchy
    A. The people who had all the power was a small group of wealthy men.
    B. Their methods of ruling was the rich became richer and poor became poor and they did nothing about it.
    C. Backed by the people they used their soldiers to throw the oligarchs out of power.
    D. One of the countries that still use Oligarchy is Quora.
  • 600 BCE

    Tyranny

    Tyranny
    A. Tyrants had the ruling power.
    B. The methods that the tyranny used to rule others was man can't claim that they have the right to rule.
    C. Tyranny lost its power by Hippias being a harsh ruler.
    Tyranny lost its power because Hippias was forced to leave power.
    The negatives associated with tyranny were that there was a hostile that was mean to aristocrats and took their land.
    D. Greece used tyranny to govern its people.
    Oligarchy associated with tyranny.
  • 500 BCE

    Democracy

    Democracy
    A. Citizens shared the ruling power.
    B. Method used by democracy to rule others was that the city had an assembly for man to vote for a new law.
    C. Democracy lost its power by an assembly reversed important decisions.
    Democracy lost its power because an assembly reversed led the city-states to go to other forms of government.
    Loud speakers made the citizens to vote unwisely was a negative of democracy.
    D. The United States used democracy to govern its people.
    Tyranny associated with democracy.