Rome was both an oligarchy and a democracy, yet at different times. First, Rome was ruled by kings, then an oligarchy. After that, the people threw out their kings and rich leaders to form a republic, the root of most modern government including the American government. After that, Rome was a Dictatorship.
Ancient Athens was the first known Democracy.The Athenian democracy was "the rule of the mob." This is very different from democracy in United States, which is referred to as a "Republican democracy."It varied over the centuries from monarchy to oligarchy, tyranny, limited democracy, oligarchy again, democracy, radical democracy, limited democracy, monarchy, limited democracy.
Rome itself had an oligarchy. It is a political system which has an oligarchy not people. The term means rule by the rich. The oligarchy in Rome was made up by the patricians aristocrats and the entrepreneurial class ob bankers, money lenders and investors in mining and shipping.
At one time, Rome was ruled solely by kings. As time passed, the government of Rome became an odd mix of a democracy and oligarchy, then an emperorship.
Democracy
ancient Rome
It started as a monarchy, became an oligarchy, then a tyranny, then limited democracy, then an oligarchy, then a radical democracy, then a limited democracy.
Over a period of a thousand years it went from Monarchy to Oligarchy to Tyranny to Oligarchy to Limited Democracy to Direct Democracy to broad-based Oligarchy to Direct Democracy to Oligarchy to Direct Democracy etc etc.
First a monarchy, then a limited democracy, then an oligarchy.
There was never a democracy in Ancient Rome, the closest it came was a Republic.
Ancient Athens was the first known Democracy.The Athenian democracy was "the rule of the mob." This is very different from democracy in United States, which is referred to as a "Republican democracy."It varied over the centuries from monarchy to oligarchy, tyranny, limited democracy, oligarchy again, democracy, radical democracy, limited democracy, monarchy, limited democracy.
Ancient Israel was a number of different absolute monarchies.
Rome itself had an oligarchy. It is a political system which has an oligarchy not people. The term means rule by the rich. The oligarchy in Rome was made up by the patricians aristocrats and the entrepreneurial class ob bankers, money lenders and investors in mining and shipping.
The government in ancient Athens was an example of democracy. The Athenian government was the first democratic form of government recorded.
First an oligarchy and then a developing limited democracy.
The types of governments were... -MONARCHY -ARISTOCRATS -OLIGARCHY -and DIRECT DEMOCRACY
Over the centuries it changed from monarchy, yooligarchy, to tyranny, to oligarchy to limited democracy, to oligarchy, to monarchy.
It varied over the centuries, starting off as a monarchy, then an oligarchy, then a limited democracy, then a radical democracy, then back to a limited democracy.