Overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens and replaced it with a short-lived oligarchy known as The Four Hundred. ... They believed that they could manage foreign, fiscal, and war policies better than the existing government.
Greece began by having monarchies, then oligarchies, then tyrannies and then democracies. The Greek Government is currently a democracy, but modern democracy finds it's roots in ancient Greece.
there was no true ruler of all of Greece because a lot of the city states had different governments so they had democracies, monarchies, and oligarchies.
First of all, we should note that only Athens and a few other city-states were ever democracies. The vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections. However, in Athenian democracy, all of the citizens voted on policies, which made Athens a direct democracy.
Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies - terms we still use today.
As each city developed on its own patch of land, it established its own form of government. This developed from petty kings, to oligarchies, to tyrannies, to democracies, and beck to oligarchies, then kingdoms under Alexander the Great's successor-generals, then as cities and provinces part of the Roman Empire.
Greece began by having monarchies, then oligarchies, then tyrannies and then democracies. The Greek Government is currently a democracy, but modern democracy finds it's roots in ancient Greece.
there was no true ruler of all of Greece because a lot of the city states had different governments so they had democracies, monarchies, and oligarchies.
In democracies, the assembly of the people. of the city-state In oligarchies, the council of the city-state. In tyrannies, the tyrant. In monarchies, the king.
First of all, we should note that only Athens and a few other city-states were ever democracies. The vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections. However, in Athenian democracy, all of the citizens voted on policies, which made Athens a direct democracy.
Aristotle divided Greek governments into monarchies, oligarchies, tyrannies and democracies - terms we still use today.
As each city developed on its own patch of land, it established its own form of government. This developed from petty kings, to oligarchies, to tyrannies, to democracies, and beck to oligarchies, then kingdoms under Alexander the Great's successor-generals, then as cities and provinces part of the Roman Empire.
The word you are looking for is DEMOCRACY.However,, we should note that only Athens and a few other city-states were ever democracies. The vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections. Ancient Athenians had a direct democracy in which all persons entitled to vote would vote on all issues.
First of all, we should note that only Athens and a few other Ancient Greek city-states were ever democracies. The vast majority of Ancient Greece was ruled by monarchies or oligarchies and not by elections.However, Ancient Greece was the first place that a form of government in which the governed needed to consent to laws and norms, e.g. a democracy, took root. As a result, people, appropriately call it the first democracy.
Direct Democracies
It varied between the hundreds of independant city-states of the Greek peoples which stretched around the Mediterran and Black Seas. Aristotle described the forms of government as Monarchies, Tyrannies, Aristocracies, Oligarchies, Democracies and Oclocracies. Most of the hundreds of cities progressed and reverted through all these stages.
Ancient Greece did not necessarily exist as one country. There were many cities within Greece that governed themselves based on different governments. The Athenians did have a democracy, but the Spartan's government was militaristic. There were also monarchies, oligarchies and several other types of government.
Oligraphic is not a word. Perhaps you mean oligarch countries, which are countries that have an oligarchy. An oligarchy is rule by a select few individuals (of which are most likely the most wealthy). No countries today are oligarchies. Oligarchies were present in Ancient Greece.