Written Work 3 12/1/2020

A. CULTURAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION

Give brief descriptions of the various stages of societies. (You may enlarge/widen the boxes) 15 pts.

Stages of Development of Societies

HUNTING AND GATHERING

1-4. Match the four major civilizations with their respective leaders.
CIVILIZATION LEADER
_____1. Sumerian

A. Pharaoh
_____2. Indus Valley B. Royal Family
_____3. Shang C. Brahmin
__A___4. Egyptian
D. Priest and Kings
E. Warriors

DEMOCRATIZATION

5.________________is the building of political institutions, common interests, and new forms
of legitimation.

6. It is said that democracy is the highest human achievement in political development because it
gives the people a collective _________in the art of governance.

7. The idea of democracy originated in ancient ___________.

8. Authoritarianism is characterized by a significant ____________ of economic and political

power.

9. In authoritarian kind of government, the land belongs to a few big landowners while the poor
farmers who cultivated it, called ____________, were obliged to pay as rent one sixth of their
produce.

10. In authoritarianism, the hereditary ruling class is called _________.

11. Ancient term for leaders________.

12-14. Greek political democracy reached its climax when the polis or city state has already
attained these three characteristics that according to historian Thucydides, did make a city free.
What are those? _______________,____________________,___________________.

15. According to the ancient Greek Philosopher _______________, a polity or constitutional

government is the optimal form of government.