Sparta’s government is better than Athens government because sparta had better leadership and organization of government. Sparta had an oligarchy government. Sparta had a system of leadership. Sparta was a strong military state and Athens . Sparta has an oligarchy government. An oligarchy government means that only a small group of people are leading the group and making decisions. Athens has a democracy. Democracy means that the people rule the country. Democracies are bad because then everybody
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The halls of the palace may have been glamorous and opulent‚ but there wasn’t a word grand enough to describe the throne room. Extraordinary gems gnarled in gold filigrees bedecked Emperor Leroy’s trophies for the world to behold. Amongst the collection‚ Ramesses identified the standard of Elthem‚ the head of a unicorn and the sacred cloak of Zephyr. A perfectly preserved dragon‚ last of its kind‚ stared down at Ramesses with reposeful eyes from atop of the emperor’s metal throne. Between the
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To what extent does Charles’s personal rule reveal a plan to “Uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will? ! ! When Charles I ascended to the throne in March 1625‚ he had inherited a Britain which had thrived on its communication with the king and of a fairer rule. Charles however went against this in the introduction of the Personal Rule where he had taken away any form of communication to the government away from the people and planned to rule without any
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Throughout history there have been rulers that have come and gone‚ with this alone‚ it sets up a challenge for the artist of the time to create a lasting piece of the ruler in a way that would stand out from all the rest. This is seen with The Head of a Ruler from 2300 to 2000 BC and The Marble Portrait of the Emperor Carcalla from 212 to 217 CE‚ they both were at one time a public figure of royal status‚ but they have their own individuality in the way these artists made them for their time and
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Based on the reading and personal experience I believe that a constitutional government is the best possible state that can be adopted‚ because constitutional governments allow the room necessary to form a strong middle class and gives the people a greater influence on their own governance. There are good and bad forms of everything in this universe. This type of distinction is made clear in the forms of governments. As Aristotle claims that kingship is a good form‚ but tyranny is an immoral perversion
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No Rules! As King Simon awoke he braced himself for another day in Ogre country‚ but then he heard something strange: not the usual happy cheers of the ogres‚ but angry mad shouts. King Simon looked out his window and saw almost all the ogres of Ogre country gathered around his tower. King Simon approached them in hopes to please them. He quickly found out nobody wanted him as king any more. They said he had too many rules and they refused to take any advice from him. At first King Simon was not
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DBQ 5: Absolutism In a rule using suppression‚ backed up by the claim to divine authority‚ an absolute monarchy embodies the omnipotent government reign. Such power was given solely to the head of the state without any constituted restraints. During the Reformation up to the seventeenth century‚ Europe’s social system started to have conflict as to whether absolute power should be appointed to the king. The king’s subjects‚ mostly nobles‚ supported their kings right to absolute power because they
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The Age of Absolutism State Building & the Search for Order in the 17th Century What is Absolutism? Absolutism or absolute monarchy was a system in which the sovereign power or ultimate authority in the state rested in the hands of a king who claimed to rule by divine right. Sovereignty In the 17th century‚ having sovereign power consisted of the authority to: Why Absolutism? A response to the crises of the 16th & 17th centuries A search for order— As revolts‚ wars‚ and
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From the very beginning of the book‚ Rousseau rejects the idea that any political authority is found in nature but rather the only natural authority is that of a father over their children. This only exists for the preservation of the child. This is consistent with the words of Hobbes who also say the relationship between the subjects and their ruler as a father and a child. This political superiority over the subjects comes from a force‚ not nature itself. “MAN is born free; and everywhere he is
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the role of the current monarchy in one country of your choice. To what extent does it fulfill its purpose? (Preparatory Project‚ First Draft) Ramankulov Assylmurat Student number: 201202018 Tutor: Samantha Mullins Date of submission: January 9‚ 2013 Word count: 1033 Nazarbayev University University Preparatory Course‚ UCL Language Center The history of the monarchy of Great Britain has roots from the distant history. Since the inception of monarchy of Great Britain‚ it
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