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509
Rome declared a republic
In 509 Rome declared a republic after the people rebelled against the king. But rome was mostly ruled by the rich upperclass people called the patricians. -
509
Plebes rebelled against rome
Plebes rebelled and won more rights including a "written law" . The plebes helped create democratic institution, the Senate. -
Period: 509 to
Rome declared a republic
people declared agaisnt the king in rome and exiled him so rome was declared a republic -
Jan 1, 700
ancient greeks had the first democracy
Athenian Athenian leader Cleisthens introduced a system of
political reforms he called “demokratia” or RULE BY
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Period: Apr 27, 700 to
DEMOCRACY
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Apr 27, 1215
Magna Carta
1215 king john signed the Magna Carta when he was forced to by the people. The Magna Carta stated that the king could not, steal firewood from other lands, force widows to remarry, Force knights to pay money to excuse them from their shift of guarding the castle, confiscating horses or carts, and force villagers to build bridges over rivers. This may not seem significant but it ment that the king was restricted to what he could do and the magna carta helped later on with starting parliment -
Parliament
comes from the word "parler" which means to speak and it evolved slowely between 1215( the signing of the magna carta, and the early 1600s -
American revolution
This is very significant because it was the first true democracy and this ment that americans could vote and the powers of the government were restricted so that one branch couldn't have too much power(if one branch tried to abuse its power the other two could overpower it) -
French revolution
THis happened when the middle class of france overthrowed their king, king louis and Queen marie antoinette. Even know this was in the spirit of democracy in the end power fell to a leader corrupeted by power, military leader napoleon -
Communism beginning
In 1848 Karl Marx wrote the communist manifesto -
Vladimeir lenin
In 1917 Vladimir Lenin overthrew the russian Tzar and when he took power so did communism -
Fascism-Benito Mussolini
shortly after WWI Benito Mussolini formed and took control of a Fascist government in italy and used force and military power to keep order -
Militarism
after Japan sticked with democracy for ahwile it eventually headed towards a nationalistic direction. Because japan felt they were being treated unfairly by the west so they became an aggresive military state -
Fascisim-Hitler
in 1920 Adolf Hitler-a ex army corporal started his rise to fame . Hitler promised to reverse the crippling effects of the Treaty of Versailles and showed extreme hate against jews and communists. When he became chancellor in 1933 and gained total power, he waged WW2 and killed 55 million people, 6 million jews, and 5 million enemies of the state. -
United Nations created the declaration of Human Rights
They pledged that human beings should have rights free from the governments and that all people are “born free and equal and thatall have the right to life, liberty and the security of
person”
