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Athens began to develop 700 to 800 years before the common era and reached its peak in the fourth century B.C.E. They overthrew their monarchical rule and made a system called demokratia or rule by the people. Later the Macedonians conquered Athenians and kept the democratic system till they got conquered in 146 B.C. It was a direct democracy that was centered around the Ecclesia that was open to all males above the age of 18 and made the laws and public decisions by majority vote. The agenda was set by the council of five hundred all chosen randomly, served one-year terms, and did the day-to-day government duties.

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Rome overthrew their monarchy in 509 BC and named their form of popular government as res publica. It lasted for 400 years until it became the Roman Empire. It had issues between the 2 social classes and women slaves and foreign-born could not vote. The social classes were the patricians, the rich, and the plebians, the common folk. The government was centered around the Senate. Composed of 300 members and two consuls chosen by the senate. The senators were chosen by the people. The consuls commanded the army and conducted foreign affairs. This government style was adopted by the American government.

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Feudalism is a loosely organized system in which powerful lords divided their land with lesser lords. It came from the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Those with land and power offered protection in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and shared crop production. The lord had vassals that he gave protection and ruled under him. They had to do things like protect the lord's manor. There are also serfs who are the bulk of the population that gave a share of their crops for protection in times of war. The government closely followed close to the monarch system.

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Surviving the collapse of imperial rule the church also gave a system of government rule with the new feudalism system. It was around for 2000 years and still exists today and has the Ten Commandments as its rule system. As more Europeans joined Catholicism the church got more powerful and had a greater rule in government. The religious part is what held it together but it is also caused it to get bad looks since not everyone believed in it.

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The black plague killed a lot of the population causing the workers to demand higher wages because of the lack of workers. This caused merchants and artisans to become wealthy and build the economy of of trade not land.

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Towns influenced everything because they were centers of trade. Merchants were free but they had to pay the lords for protection and use of the roads and duties on what they trade but many of the powers the lords had they did not extend into the cities.

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With the undermine of the feudal system many leaders of the towns like the centralized rule of a monarchy causing the growth of that system. Monarchs started to take all government rule and use a national army instead of one put forth by nobles. They gained most strength in the 1400s in nations like England, Spain, and France. They established national governments with national legal systems, identities, and taxes. Absolute monarchs ignored all other voices.

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The absolute monarch hired loyal servants to help look over the nation because of the vast amount of land. The ruler had power over everyone including nobles. They were recognized as the strongest people that could protect the people and make laws for the whole nation. Two different monarchies are the monarchy of China and the British monarchy. The Chinese monarchy was an absolute monarchy where the ruler had all the power but also went into political distress forming different types of monarchies throughout the time but not many of them worked too well. The British monarchy is a constitutional monarchy so the royal family has rule over the government but the parliament decides the laws and policies that are made. These different types show the difference from the people having a voice to only one person having a voice over the country.

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One form is the divine right of kings that follows tradition that causes the people to believe in it because it is the normal way. Another way is by the power of personality where the leader is charismatic causing the people to believe in them. Finally the government binds itself to the rule of law by the government following a fair set of laws.

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The European government had power over their own land and also the land of overseas causing them to create colonial trade causing for a build in government for this kind of trade.

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Mercantilism is where money is the chief source of wealth to increase the power of the monarchy and the nation. It also promotes trade with other countries to build more wealth. Monarchs set up the system to monopolize the trade system since new exploration caused colonization in the Western hemisphere. This gave them a new source of wealth but brought changes in the ways of government.

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The ideas brought up by Machiavelli like the natural rights and other ideas gave the backbone for government systems like that of the US giving the government limited power over the people.

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Many people followed the same ideas of putting more power into the people's hands causing them to come up with different systems that limit the government's power and put what the people want first. John Locke came up with the idea of the natural rights of all men including life, liberty, and property which was used to form legislation like the Declaration of Independence. Also, Thomas Hobbs came up with the social contract theory that gives the right of power to the people leaving them with the overall opinion of what rights they have and give up.