HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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It centered on a tribunal of warriors elected from their regimens
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It relied on a merchant oligarchy to make and administer laws
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I shared power among kings, an elite council, and elected officials
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It was ruled by tyrants who derived their power from war-making
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Detailed explanation-1: -The elders had to be sixty years old or older to qualify for the position. These leaders took the laws to an assembly made up of citizens for an up–or-down vote without discussion or alterations. The only way to become a citizen of Sparta was to be a descendent of the original Doric invaders who settled the city.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the city-state of Sparta, an oligarchy controlled the power. The citizens had little say in the decisions made by the government but, at the time, this was the structure that existed. The Spartans gave up an emphasis on comfort and culture for a more disciplined military approach.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sparta’s government was technically a diarchy because it had two kings. However, there were also many councils. The gerousia was the council of twenty-eight elders elected for life at age sixty, and the apella was the assembly of thirty-year-old citizens who voted on decisions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sparta was an oligarchy. The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, both supposedly descendants of Heracles and equal in authority, so that one could not act against the power and political enactments of his colleague.