oligarchy
(noun)
A form
of power structure in which a small group of people hold all power and
influence in a state.
Examples of oligarchy in the following topics:
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Effects of the Peloponnesian War
- The Spartan army encouraged revolt, installing a pro-Spartan oligarchy within Athens, called the Thirty Tyrants, in 404 BCE.
- Most of the ruling systems set up by Lysander were ten-man oligarchies, called decarchies, in which harmosts, Spartan military governors, were the heads of the government.
- Lysander also managed to require Athens to recall its exiles, causing political instability within the city-state, of which Lysander took advantage to establish the oligarchy that came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants.
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The First Intermediate Period
- The Seventh Dynasty was most likely an oligarchy based in Memphis that attempted to retain control of the country.
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Sparta
- Sparta functioned under an oligarchy.
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John Locke
- Rather, he believed a legitimate contract could easily exist between citizens and a monarchy, an oligarchy, or in some mixed form.
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Culture in Classical Sparta
- Sparta functioned under an oligarchy.
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The Rise of Classical Greece
- Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, put in place a pro-Spartan oligarchy headed by Isagoras.