<span>The word “oligarchy” and the concepts which it symbolizes originated in ancient Greece. In its basic use, the word identified one of the general forms of government recognized by the Greeks: that in which political government is conducted by a few persons or families. It was also used more narrowly, by Aristotle for example, to refer to the debased form of aristocracy, that is, to government by the few or by a faction. The term “oligarchy” was also used to refer to the small group of persons who enjoyed a monopoly of political control in oligarchic governments; the term usually had the added sense that the oligarchy ruled in its own rather than in the public interest. For Aristotle, classification of governments rested on two independent variables: the number of persons who ruled and the purposes served by their rule. Oligarchy was present when a few persons ruled for their own satisfaction.</span>
<span>A ZEPPELIN was a large gas-filled balloon that was used to bomb the English coast.</span>
The Quakers lived in harmony and peace, as their religion permitted and demanded; therefore, they had no problems with neighboring Indian tribes; however, this peace was threatened in 1757, when the Delaware and Shawnee natives joined the French, during the Franco-Indian War, and the Pennsylvania government declared war on the two Indian tribes. From that moment on, the Quakers renounced the Pennsylvania Council to keep themselves out of this war, for their pacifist way of seeing life prevented them from going to war with the Indian tribes.
<span>C: voting structure of the estates general
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