What is the best definition of an oligarchy?

Answer 1

An oligarchy is run by a few leaders. They were often wealthy individuals and led luxurious lives. They enforced rule by military support. Most citizens had no say in government. By 400 B.C.E., a stable oligarchy only ruled one city-state, Sparta.

Answer 2

Oligarchy means 'rule by the few'. There could be a narrow-based oligarchy of a small clique of aristocrats, or a broad-based oligarchy of all the property owners. So 'few' was flexible. If the number of property owners was more than the non-propertied class, it was still an oligarchy and they were still 'the few'.

The wider political system was democracy - people power, but old ways died hard. When non-propertied citizens were given political rights in the Athenian experiment with democracy, the non-propertied class had to declare in the Assembly the untruth that they were part of the propertied class.

Answer 3

The Ancient Greek name Xandy means protector of man and it is a girls name.

Answer 4

the rule of a small group of people