Lesson 8.2 Political Systems

Question 1

What is a region that shares a common government?

Answer 1

state

Question 2

What is the form of government that is ruled by a single (one) person?

Answer 2

autocracy

Question 3

What is the form of government in which citizens (people) hold political power?

Answer 3

democracy

Question 4

What is the name for a king or a queen?

Answer 4

monarch

Question 5

How does a monarch become the leader of a nation?

Answer 5

inherits it

Question 6

What kind of power do absolute monarchs have?

Answer 6

unlimited

Question 7

What type of monarchy is limited by law and shares power with other branches of government?

Answer 7

constitutional monarchy

Question 8

What is the name of the type of government where the power is unlimited and held by a single person or small group?

Answer 8

authoritarian

Question 9

What is the name for a common form of authoritarian government in which the government owns all property and makes all economic decisions for the citizens?

Answer 9

communism