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An oligarchy is a government ruled by a small number of people. It comes from the Greek words oligos ("few") and arkho ("rule").
Sparta used an oligarchy as their form of government. This means that there was a few people who ruled.
They were governed by a system of government called an Oligarchy. It meant ruled by few. These few people were normally rich people and they could overturn kings.
An oligarchy is a form of government where all power is vested in a few people, or a dominant class or clique. It is a society governed by the few.
Communism is an autonomous society that is ruled by no one and instead runs on its own self stability. True democracy is where we are ruled by the people. Therefore, the U.S. not a democracy but a republic because we are not ruled by all. We are ruled by few.
In an oligarchy a small group of people rule, it is 'Ruled By The Few'. However, this is a relative term, so what is called 'The Few' could be a hundred people. China is technically an oligarchy.
The oligarchies couldn't last because they ruled only a few people.
It was ruled only by a selected few, called an oligarchy
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Each city-state, or polis, had its own government. Some city states were monarchies ruled by kings or tyrants. Others were oligarchies ruled by a few powerful men on councils. The city of Athens invented the government of democracy and was ruled by the people for many years.
An oligarchy is not run by one person. An oligarchy is a group of people leading a place