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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Ancient Roman Empire
Ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. -
Period: 13 BCE to 19 BCE
Ancient Greece
For the Greeks, any system of government that excluded power from the whole citizen body, and was not a tyranny or monarchy was described as oligarchy. usually oligarchies came into play when democracy failed -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carter
A charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
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John Locke
English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". -
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Montesquieu
A French lawyer, man of letters, and a political philosopher that lived during the age of enlightenment. Most famous for his articulation of the theory of the separation of powers. -
English Bill of Rights
Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights. -
Iroquois
A powerful Northeast Native American Confederacy. Some of the names they were known as are the "Iroquois League", Iroquois Confederacy", "The Five Nations", and later as "The Six Nations". -
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Thomas Paine
An English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. At the start of the American Revolution, he authored two of the most influential pamphlets.
