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An oligarchy is/was a powerful from of government. It was ruled by any sort of group of powerful people - aristocrats, wealthy landowners, or anyone that had lots of money, power, and influence.
Often in ancient times, they were aristocrats. They made laws that benefitted themselves and the trend was often that the poor lost more wealth, and the riched gained more - as oligarchs passed laws to benefit the rich.
Some argue that even today, countries like Russia and those that don't have a complete democratic or republican government have oligarchs, although that's always arguable.
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the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
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the relation between a governed and a governing word.
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The Greek values of democracy were the most demonstrated in Greek theater.
Explanation:
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There were big stages that were holding these plays on the festival of Dionysus and the people across the land no matter how rich or poor would sit in the same arena to watch the plays.
This was a great leveler of the society and the same people were watching the same play meaning their culture was the same without any class barriers on thought and philosophy.
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