Quiz - Ancient Greece & Rome

Any form of government where citizens control their government through direct participation

• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Theocracy

A government where people give power to elected leaders.

• Republic
• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Dictatorship

Any form of government where one person holds all the power.

• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Theocracy

In this forms of government, power is not inherited, but usually taken by force.

• Dictatorship
• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Theocracy

In this forms of government, the religious laws are the laws of the government as well.

• Theocracy
• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Dictatorship

The type of government practiced in Ancient Athens that most influenced the modern world was a ______________________.

• Monarchy
• Aristocracy
• Oligarchy
• Direct Democracy

Which of the following is a type of government where a single hereditary ruler is in charge?

• Democracy
• Theocracy
• Oligarchy
• Monarchy

A political system in which representatives are elected by the people is sometimes called a ____________.

• Direct Democracy
• A Republic
• A Monarchy
• An Oligarchy

At first Athens was governed by a king who was replaced by a(n) _____________ made up of three nobles who were chosen by an assembly of citizens.

• aristocracy
• Senate
• direct democracy
• republic

Athens, Greece had a ______________, which allowed all citizens to participate in the decision-making of government.

• aristocracy
• oligarchy
• direct democracy
• republic