2.) Ancient Rome - Government

A system in which a small and powerful group controls the government.

• dictatorship
• democracy
• oligarchy
• autocracy

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A form of government where the supreme power is held by a king or queen.

• presidential democracy
• parliamentary democracy
• oligarchy
• monarchy

Succession

• One person or thing following another

• A group of people

• Failure

• To be demoted

Which society was the first to practice democracy?

• Greece
• Rome
• Carthage
• America

A form of government in which citizens elect their leaders

• legion

• republic

• patricians

Why did the Romans create the republic?

• So they would not have a king in control.
• To defend themselves.
• So that every person could be a citizen.
• So that judges could make laws.

Rome created a ________, which allowed voters to elect leaders into office to make laws.

• republic

• democracy

• monarchy

• oligarchy

What was Roman law based on?

• revenge
• inequality
• fairness
• absolute rule

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What were the two top officials in the Roman government chosen to serve one year?

• Consuls
• Praetors
• Tribunes
• Senators

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Rome's most important legislative or law-making body of 300 Patrician men was called the

•  Forum
• House of Representatives
• Congress
• Senate

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