HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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king governed the state
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had democratic elements
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priests were in control
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worked like an oligarchy
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the early days of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Senate was an oligarchy. It had its origins in the patrician elite. The first Roman senate is said to have been established by King Romulus. Initially, a 100 men formed the senate and the descendants of these men formed the next class of senators.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oligarchy is a form of government in which a small group of people hold most or all political power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The government in the early years of the Roman Republic had 3 branches-The Consuls, The Senate, and The Assembly. Each branch had various powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Roman Republic describes the period in which the city-state of Rome existed as a republican government (from 509 B.C.E. to 27 B.C.E.), one of the earliest examples of representative democracy in the world.