They knew the Greek idea of direct democracy. While they didn't necessarily apply the idea in their political system directly, they did apply some ideas that were shared with the Greeks that made the Roman political system more stable and better in the end.
A democracy which Is the correct answer if you are talking about the 20th century
Abundance of resources = trade/cooperation
Scarcity of resources = conflicts
The more resources you have the more likely a civilization was to get along with those around it, although at the same time if the civilization was weak and had a lot of resources it would be at risk of invasion/attack.
Supporters of art during the Renaissance were called clergy.
In March 1917, the army barracks at Petrograd united striking workers in challenging socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was enforced to step down from his leadership. Nicholas and his family were first detained at the Czarskoye Selo palace, then in the Yekaterinburg palace near Tobolsk. In July 1918, the improvement of anti-revolutionary forces caused the Yekaterinburg Soviet forces to fear that Nicholas might be set free. After a secret meeting, a death sentence was approved on the imperial family, and Nicholas, his wife, his children, and several of their servants were gunned down on the night of July 16.