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Understanding Government and Civilizations

This quiz tests knowledge on the concepts of government, historical civilizations, and philosophical ideas related to governance and power.

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1 ________—2600 BC[9][21]

2 [8] By the third to second millenniums BC, some of these had developed into larger governed areas: Sumer, ________, the Indus Valley Civilization, and the Yellow River Civilization.

3 Many centuries later, ________ addressed the question of abuse of power by writing on the importance of checks and balances [27] to prevent or at least constrain abuse.

4 ________ – A government that has a monarch, but one whose powers are limited by law or by a formal constitution.

5 A Government is the ________, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises its authority, controls and administers public policy, and directs and controls the actions of its members or subjects[1].

6 Yellow River Civilization (________)—2000 BC[9]

7 He (in the voice of ________) asked if the purpose of government was to help ones friends and hurt ones enemies, for example.

8 In early ________, the outcome of war for the defeated was often enslavement.

9 Some anarchists, such as anarcho-syndicalists or anarcho-primitivists, advocate egalitarianism and non-hierarchical societies while others, such as ________, advocate free markets, individual sovereignty and freedom.

10 The fundamental purpose of government is to maintain ________ and protect property.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco.
  • the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830.
  • the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government-sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China.
  • In re Debs was a 1895 Supreme Court case that resulted in an unanimous ruling affirming the right of the United States government to issue an injunction to halt strikes affecting interstate commerce and U.S. Mail.
  • Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body.
  • L. B. Henry of Pineville, overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber-businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government.
  • Playland, often called Rye Playland, is America's only government owned and operated amusement park.
  • sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus.
  • Arthur MacMahon was one of the first political scientists to use empirical methods to study government.
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