quiz 1

Question 1

government

Answer 1

a system of controlling and organized people

Question 2

aristocracy

Answer 2

a government run by wealthy people

Question 3

monarchy

Answer 3

a government run by a king or queens

Question 4

oligarchy

Answer 4

a government run by a group of people or a family

Question 5

democracy

Answer 5

a greek word meaning “rule of people”

Question 6

republic

Answer 6

a government in which people elect representatives to run their country

Question 7

senate

Answer 7

very educated group of people that make laws

Question 8

direct democracy

Answer 8

a system where people make the laws, no representatives

Question 9

solon

Answer 9

greek politician who help to create democracy by allowing the wealthy not just from certain families to vote

Question 10

cleisthenes

Answer 10

considered father of democracy because he allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate and passage.

Question 11

socrates

Answer 11

greek philosopher who taught his students that to arrive at the truth one must question your most important beliefs

Question 12

plato

Answer 12

the smartest student of socrates who believed that the most intelligent person should be the leader not the one with the most money or connections

Question 13

philosopher king

Answer 13

this was the name plato gave his leader

Question 14

the republic

Answer 14

platos book

Question 15

aristotle

Answer 15

the smartest of plato’s students who believes that all people were political because we are born into a state

Question 16

legislature

Answer 16

one branch of government that makes the laws or lawmakers