An oligarchy is rule and governance by the rich and powerful, usually the business class but sometimes the elite who inherited money, land, mineral rights and/or livestock, etc. A theocracy is rule by spiritual leaders. Both rely on the masses embracing supportive belief systems.
Rebellion always occurs if rule isn't just. Neither belief system lasts or works well. [See Discussion on this line]
They are functionally the same. Theocracy is the rule by a small number of a religious sect. The Vatican is an example of a theocracy. The Massachusetts Bay Company was another.
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theocracy, aristocracy and laucracy :D
an oligarchy is ruled by an elite group; an absolute monarchy is ruled by a single individual.
Government by the few is an oligarchy, by a single powerful ruler an autocracy, and by the landed gentry an aristocracy.
Oligarchy may include theocracy and communist regimes.
"For the real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and when the poor rule, that is a democracy. "This is from Politics by Aristotle (Forms of Government Book III, Chapters 7-8, last paragraph).
Theocracy is a small group of religious people that rules the state or country; and Monarchy is where only 1 person rules, which is the king!
They are not comparable. The Roman Republic was an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Theocracy, Oligarchy, Anarchy and Tyranny. These are the forms of government that all Greek city-states had.
Athens valued democracy, culture, and education, while Sparta focused on military strength, discipline, and obedience. Athenian society prioritized individual freedoms, intellectual pursuits, and artistic expression, whereas Spartan society emphasized militarism, physical fitness, and strict social hierarchy.
An autocracy is a government in which a single person holds unlimited political power. An oligarchy is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.