GK
WORLD HISTORY
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An oligarchy was ruled by a senate, a tyranny is ruled by one.
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An oligarchy is ruled by a few, a tyranny is ruled by a family.
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An oligarchy was ruled by one, a tyranny is ruled by a few.
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An oligarchy was ruled by a few, a tyranny is ruled by one.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Broadly speaking, an oligarchy is a form of government characterized by the rule of a few persons or families. More specifically, the term was used by Greek philosopher Aristotle in contrast to aristocracy, which was another term to describe rule by a privileged few.
Detailed explanation-2: -tyranny, in the Greco-Roman world, an autocratic form of rule in which one individual exercised power without any legal restraint. In antiquity the word tyrant was not necessarily pejorative and signified the holder of absolute political power.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle’s theory of democracy Thus “rule by one” is monarchy in its ideal form and tyranny in its perverted form (see tyrant); “rule by the few” is aristocracy in its ideal form and oligarchy in its perverted form; and “rule by the many” is “polity” in its ideal form and…