The economy and the military
What area did the Dutch control
Which government are you talking about? Adolf Hitler had complete control over Germany and Benito Mussolini had complete control over Italy.
No French revolutionary took control of a government in 1917; however a Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, took control of the Russian government in 1917.
The only country under Communist control at that time was the Soviet Union.
Germany's urge to control all of Europe.
Many countries are aristocracies, meaning the leaders are of royal descent. Some current aristocracies include Spain, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.
Yes, but not their aristocracies - they exchanged aristocracies between cities so that the new one would not be too sympathetic and would prevent uprisings.
I Think it's Democracies
They exchanged aristocracies between different provinces, so that the new rulers would not be sympathetic to uprisings by the people. This happened, eg, to the ten northern tribes of Israel, whose aristocracies were sent to govern in Assyria and were replaced by an aristocracy from there. The people remained in place, under firm alien rule. The Babylonians copied this technique later when they captured the southern kingdoms of Judah and Benjamin, sending their aristocracies to Babylon to rule there.
Vilfredo Pareto said "History is the graveyard of aristocracies" which is probably what you're looking for.
Aristocrat, Aristocratic, Varistor, Varistors, Nonaristocratic, Aristos, Aristocratic, Aristocratically, Aristocracies, there's a lot more.
Religions/gods are a very useful tool in controlling people. The fear of unknown power and its potential consequences can be used effectively to control and direct people's actions and reactions, today as well as in earlier times. The aristocracies in the Mesopotamian cities were able to use the gods to direct and control, a very significant part of government control and direction, which they used to the full. Unfortunately, even with the benefit of scientific knowledge today, with unseen forces of gods unnecessary, large numbers of people still are influenced by such control and motivation.
Landed nobility or landed aristocracy is a category of nobility in various countries over the history, for which landownership was part of their noble privileges.
Persia was ruled first by king Darius then King Xerxes. The Greek city-states were ruled by their aristocracies.
Bribing the aristocracies of the Greek city-states in mainland Greece to accept Persian overlordship.
Leaders came from the landed aristocracy who dominated the political scene. The aristocracies formed governing council.
The mass of people remained, but the aristocracy was sent to another area and a new aristocracy imported and placed in control. This ensured they were not likely to lead uprisings and would keep the location under firm control. This happened to the ten northern tribes of Israel. The Babylonians later copied this practice and exchanged exported the aristocracies of Judah and Benjamin to Babylon and replaced them with new imported rulers.