Unit 1 Review: Greeks, Romans, Spartans and Democracy

"I'm chosen by God! You must obey me and follow my laws or God will smite you!"

Money paid by citizens to support a government

The belief that personal needs should be included in any set of laws

Hammurabi's Code

Aristocracy

The Magna Carta is seen as the first written version of this type of legal document

Pardon

Any organization of control in a community

Philosopher

A political condition where rulers only rule through self-interest

Procedural Law

A group of citizens who sit in judgment of a legally charged citizen

Got rid of debt slavery, limited land ownership, stopped sale of grain abroad

A Socratic story that represents the divide between illusion and reality

The reforms of this ruler involved creating an Athenian Assembly, Voting, and Ostracism

Due Process

The Sharia, a religious legal code, comes from which influence?

When all individuals represent themselves before the government

The highest class in Roman Society who made up the Roman Senate

A system of laws that are written down

A person who has all rights, privileges and membership in a political community

Rule that does not involve written laws but the changing impulses of a ruler.

The two-house government of ancient Rome

A description of crimes and punishments

The concepts of forgiveness and "turn the other cheek"

A legal, written agreement between two or more parties or people

The oldest set of laws, derived from Jewish Law

A monarch who has no influence on the actions of a government

Privileges that are not written down but society has determined we are all entitled to at birth

Citizens agree to give their loyalty to a ruler that promises to protect them

A government that is created by "the will of the people"