Political Spectrum Lecture Slides II
Lecture slides
Lecture slides
Partially finished lecture focused on the contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans and then the French Revolution to our understanding of government and the political spectrum.
Will be continued this week.

We are starting a unit on the forms of government and the philosophies of the modern political spectrum. Below is our unit vocabulary by category:
Forms of Government & Related Terms:
Anarchy, Tyranny, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship, State of Nature, Social Contract, Natural Law, Revolution, Right of Revolution, Sovereign, Popular Sovereignty, State, Nation, Rule-Set
Political Spectrum & Related Terms:
Anarchist, Radical, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Reactionary, Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Libertarian, Populist
Philosophers & Thinkers:
Aristotle, Plato, Polybius, Cicero, Machiavelli, Baron de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, James Madison, Edmund Burke, Socrates, Ibn Khaldun, Confucius
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Students have begun learning about Forms of Government:
Anarchy
Aristocracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Republic
Tyranny
LECTURE SLIDES:
Revolutions in Worldviews: