A form of government called by the Greek term 'thalassocracy' refers to a state with power in what realm?
"Compare to ""tellurocracy"" ""land-based hegemony"". The term ""thalassocracy"" can also simply refer to naval supremacy, in either military or commercial senses of the word ""supremacy"". The Ancient Greeks first used the word ""thalassocracy"" to describe the government of the Minoan civilization, whose power depended on its navy. Herodotus distinguishes sea-power from land-power and spoke of the need to counter the Phoenician thalassocracy by developing a Greek ""empire of the sea"". There are many ancient examples besides those mentioned above, such as the Delian League. Aside from this example, which was an empire based primarily on naval power and control of"
"Tellurocracy Tellurocracy (from the Latin ""tellus"" ""land"" and the Greek κράτος ""power"") is a type of civilization or state system that is clearly associated with the development of land territories and consistent penetration into inland territories. Tellurocratic states have a certain territory and the state-forming ethnic majority living on it, around which further expansion takes place. The opposite of tellurocracy is thalassocracy (maritime empires), although in the pure type of a particular state is rarely observed. Usually there is a combination of tellurocratic characteristics with thalassocratic. In political geography, geopolitics and geo-economics, the term is used to explain the power"
"Aristocracy Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία ""aristokratía"", from ἄριστος """" ""excellent"", and κράτος, kratos 'rule') is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. The term derives from the Greek ""aristokratia"", meaning ""rule of the best-born"". The term is synonymous with hereditary government, and hereditary succession is its primary philosophy, after which the hereditary monarch appoints officers as they see fit. At the time of the word's origins in ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best qualified citizens—and often contrasted it favourably with monarchy, rule by an individual. In later"
"Timocracy A timocracy (from Greek τιμή ""timē"", ""price, worth"" and -κρατία ""-kratia"", ""rule"") in Aristotle's ""Politics"" is a state where only property owners may participate in government. The more extreme forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy rule. Solon introduced the ideas of ""timokratia"" as a graded oligarchy in his Solonian Constitution for Athens in the early 6th century BC. His was the first known deliberately implemented form of timocracy, allocating political rights and economic responsibility depending on"
"a more conservative perspective through ""isokratia"" which argues for an extension of liberal democracy with mass electronic voting. Isocracy An isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. The term derives from Greek ἴσος meaning ""equal"" and κρατεῖν meaning ""to have power"", or ""to rule"". An Isocracy expands from the legal right of isonomia to political and economic systems, from equality of law, to equality in governance. To achieve this, an isocracy both combines and expands features of liberal rights and those in democratic rule. According to the nascent political movement of the same name"
"who love the sight of truth"" (Republic 475c) and supports the idea with the analogy of a captain and his ship or a doctor and his medicine. According to him, sailing and health are not things that everyone is qualified to practice by nature. A large part of the Republic then addresses how the educational system should be set up to produce these philosopher kings. Aristocracy Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία ""aristokratía"", from ἄριστος """" ""excellent"", and κράτος, kratos 'rule') is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. The term derives from the"
"Isocracy An isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. The term derives from Greek ἴσος meaning ""equal"" and κρατεῖν meaning ""to have power"", or ""to rule"". An Isocracy expands from the legal right of isonomia to political and economic systems, from equality of law, to equality in governance. To achieve this, an isocracy both combines and expands features of liberal rights and those in democratic rule. According to the nascent political movement of the same name an Isocracy embodies individual autonomy by extension informed consent and natural resources as the source of public income."
"""theocracy"" originates from the Greek θεοκρατία meaning ""the rule of God"". This in turn derives from θεός (""theos""), meaning ""god"", and κρατέω (""krateo""), meaning ""to rule"". Thus the meaning of the word in Greek was ""rule by god(s)"" or human incarnation(s) of god(s). The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century A.D. to describe the characteristic government of the Jews. Josephus argued that while mankind had developed many forms of rule, most could be subsumed under the following three types: monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy. The government of the Jews, however, was unique. Josephus offered the term"
"Androcracy Androcracy is a form of government in which the government rulers are male. The males, especially fathers, have the central roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property. It is also sometimes called a phallocracy, phallocratic, andrarchy, or an androcentric society. This term derives from the Greek root words ""andros"", ""man"", and ""krateo"" (as in democratic), or ""to rule"". Traditionally, influential political positions have been disproportionately occupied by males. With the rise of feminism since the late 19th century, opinions concerning women in politics have changed in a manner that has facilitated an increase in female political"
"but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected. Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία ""aristokratía"", from ἄριστος """" ""excellent"", and κράτος """" ""power"") is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. Many monarchies were aristocracies, although in modern constitutional monarchies the monarch himself or herself has little real power. The term ""Aristocracy"" could also refer to the non-peasant, non-servant, and non-city classes in the Feudal system. An oligarchy is ruled by a small group of segregated, powerful or influential people who usually share similar interests or family relations. These people may"
"Alchemist"" manga and anime series is a nominal parliamentary republic, where parliament has been used as a facade to distract from the authoritarian regime, as the government is almost completely centralized by the military, and the majority of government positions are occupied by military personnel. The Turian Hierarchy of ""Mass Effect"" is another example of a fictional stratocracy, where the civilian and military populations cannot be distinguished, and the government and the military are the same, and strongly meritocratic, with designated responsibilities for everyone. Stratocracy A stratocracy (from στρατός, ""stratos"", ""army"" and κράτος, ""kratos"", ""dominion"", ""power"") is a form of"
"the Australian Outback and inland Africa, etc.). The term Tellurocracy itself was proposed by the Russian National Bolshevist and Eurasianist publicist Alexander Dugin, based on the works of the famous Third Reich and West German lawyer and theorist of geopolitics Carl Schmitt. Dugin associates Tellurocracy with Eurasianism, in contrast a perceived association of thalassocracy with Atlanticism. Tellurocracy Tellurocracy (from the Latin ""tellus"" ""land"" and the Greek κράτος ""power"") is a type of civilization or state system that is clearly associated with the development of land territories and consistent penetration into inland territories. Tellurocratic states have a certain territory and the"
"(meaning ""rule, power, strength""). Ancient Greek political thinkers regarded ochlocracy as one of the three ""bad"" forms of government (tyranny, oligarchy, and ochlocracy) as opposed to the three ""good"" forms of government (monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy). They distinguished ""good"" and ""bad"" according to whether the government form would act in the interest of the whole community (""good"") or in the exclusive interests of a group or individual at the expense of justice (""bad""). This (Polybian) terminology for forms of state in ancient Greek philosophy has become customary. Aristotle termed democracy as ""polity"" (sometimes translated as ""republic"", which confusingly is used"
"Theocracy Theocracy is a form of government in which a religious institution is the source from which all authority derives. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" has this definition: An ecclesiocracy is a situation where the religious leaders assume a leading role in the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation: for example, the prince-bishops of the European Middle Ages, where the bishop was also the temporal ruler. Such a state may use the administrative hierarchy of the religion for its own administration, or it may have two ""arms""—administrators and clergy—but with the state administrative hierarchy subordinate"
"Stratocracy A stratocracy (from στρατός, ""stratos"", ""army"" and κράτος, ""kratos"", ""dominion"", ""power"") is a form of government headed by military chiefs. It is not the same as a military dictatorship or ""military junta"" where the military's political power is not enforced or even supported by other laws. Rather, stratocracy is a form of military government in which civil and military service are difficult to distinguish, where the state and the military are traditionally or constitutionally the same entity, and that government positions are always occupied by commissioned officers and military leaders. Citizens with mandatory or voluntary military service, or veterans"
"more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments on Earth, as well as subsidiary organizations. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy and tyranny. The main aspect of any philosophy of government is how political power is obtained, with the two main forms being electoral contest and hereditary succession. A government is the system to govern a state or community. The word ""government"" derives, ultimately, from the Greek verb κυβερνάω [""kubernáo""] (meaning ""to steer"" with gubernaculum (rudder), the metaphorical sense being attested in Plato's Ship of State). The Columbia Encyclopedia defines government"
"by some authors, like Cynthia Eller in her book ""The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory"". Androcracy Androcracy is a form of government in which the government rulers are male. The males, especially fathers, have the central roles of political leadership, moral authority, and control of property. It is also sometimes called a phallocracy, phallocratic, andrarchy, or an androcentric society. This term derives from the Greek root words ""andros"", ""man"", and ""krateo"" (as in democratic), or ""to rule"". Traditionally, influential political positions have been disproportionately occupied by males. With the rise of feminism since the late 19th century, opinions concerning women in"
"Bankocracy Bankocracy (from the English word bank and Ancient Greek κράτος - ""kratos"", ""power, rule"") or trapezocracy (from Greek τράπεζα - ""trapeza"", ""bank"") is a polemic term referring to the excessive power or influence of banks on public policy-making. It can also refer to a form of government where financial institutions rule society. One of the first uses of the term was by British Member of Parliament William Fullarton (1754–1808), who in a parliamentary debate on April 10, 1797 characterized the monopoly of the Bank of England as being a more important issue to solve than the peace attempts to"
"Laocracy Laocracy (Greek: λαοκρατία) is a political term meaning ""rule of the people"". It has been used by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE, Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας) since its inception, instead of the term democracy. For Greek Communists the Greek word democracy (δημοκρατία), meaning the rule of the ""demos"", refers to the ancient rule of the ruling social class of free citizens, forming the demos, in the Athenian Republic of the city-state which represented a minority while the slaves were the majority of the population. In this sense, democracy is considered by the Communists to refer to the rule of"
"who could not be questioned, sometimes even being the descendant of, or a god in their own right. Today, there is also a form of government where clerics have the power and the supreme leader could not be questioned in action. From the perspective of the theocratic government, ""God himself is recognized as the head"" of the state, hence the term ""theocracy"", from the Koine Greek ""rule of God"", a term used by Josephus for the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Taken literally, ""theocracy"" means rule by God or gods and refers primarily to an internal ""rule of the heart"","
"states or as appanages by princes bearing the title of despot; most notably the Despotate of Epirus, the Despotate of the Morea and the Serbian Despotate. In modern usage, the word has taken a different meaning: ""despotism"" is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. The semantic shift undergone by the term is mirrored by ""tyrant"", an ancient Greek word that originally bore no negative connotation, and the Latin ""dictator"", a constitutionally sanctioned office of the Roman Republic. In colloquial Modern Greek, the word is often used to refer to a bishop. In English,"
"of the seas is not a paternalistic but democratic arrangement. Where there are rulers, there are the ruled. A kind of exclusivity is meant, such as in Rule, Britannia!. Specifically, in a thalassocracy, the fleets of the ruler may go where they will and do as they please, but the ruled may go nowhere and engage in no operation without express permission of the ruler. You need a license, so to speak, to be on ruled waters, and if you do not have it, your ships are attacked and destroyed. “Shoot on sight” is the policy. And so Carthaginian ships"
"as the regime in power. According to Aristotle, states are classified into monarchies, aristocracies, timocracies, democracies, oligarchies, and tyrannies. Due to changes across the history of politics, this classification has been abandoned. All states are varieties of a single organizational form, the sovereign state. All the great powers of the modern world rule on the principle of sovereignty. Sovereign power may be vested on an individual as in an autocratic government or it may be vested on a group as in a constitutional government. Constitutions are written documents that specify and limit the powers of the different branches of government."
"Plato's five regimes The Classical Greek philosopher Plato discusses five types of regimes (""Republic"", Book VIII). They are Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny. Plato also assigns a man to each of these regimes to illustrate what they stand for. The tyrannical man would represent Tyranny, for example. These five regimes progressively degenerate starting with Aristocracy at the top and Tyranny at the bottom. Aristocracy is the form of government (politeia) advocated in Plato's ""Republic"". This regime is ruled by a philosopher king and thus is grounded on wisdom and reason. The aristocratic state and the man whose nature corresponds"
"Toparches Toparchēs (, ""place-ruler""), anglicized as toparch, is a Greek term for a governor or ruler of a district, which in Byzantine times came to be applied to independent or semi-independent rulers in the periphery of the Byzantine world. The term originates in Hellenistic times, when ""topos"" (τόπος, ""place, locale"") was established as an administrative unit, most notably in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, but also among the Seleucids and Attalids, although less well attested in comparison to Ptolemaic practice. The Ptolemaic ""topos"" comprised a number of villages (""komai"", sing. ""komē"") under a ""toparchēs"" and was in turn grouped into a larger"
"all Greek poleis, and also in Rome (then still a barely significant town). After the demise of kingship, the Greek city-states were initially most often led by nobility (aristocracy), after which their economic and military power base crumbled. Next, in almost all poleis tyrants usurped power for two generations (tyranny, 7th and especially 6th century BCE), after which gradually forms of governments led by the wealthy (oligarchy) or assemblies of free male citizens (democracy) emerged in Classical Greece (mainly after 500 BCE). Athenian democracy (6th century–322 BCE) is the best-known example of the latter form; classical Sparta (c. 550–371 BCE)"
"Kakistocracy A kakistocracy () is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. It also was used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant use in the first decades of the twenty-first century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world. The word is derived from two Greek words, ""kakistos"" (; worst) and ""kratos"" (; rule), with a literal meaning of government by the worst people. Linguistic equivalents of the English word ""kakistocracy"" are as"
"of a country through its control over land. For example, prior to their merger, the Sultanate of Muscat was thalassocratic, but the Imamate of Oman was landlocked and purely tellurocratic. In addition, it could be said that most or all landlocked states are tellurocracies. Tellurocracies are generally not purely tellurocratic. In particular, most large tellurocracies have coastlines and not just inland territories, unlike thassalocracies, which historically would generally only have coastlines, and not inland territories. This makes it difficult to define what exactly a tellurocracy is. For example, the Mongols attempted to conquer Japan on multiple occasions. As well, the"
"Aristotle's Politics. In his book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes expands on this classification. An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection). A despotism is a government ruled by a single entity with absolute power, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regular mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for implicit threat). That entity may be an individual, as in"
"Logocracy Logocracy is the rule of, or government by, words. It is derived from the Greek (logos)—""word"" and from (kratos)—to ""govern"". The term can be used either positively, ironically, or negatively. The United States is described as a logocracy in Washington Irving's 1807 work, ""Salmagundi"". A visiting foreigner, ""Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan"", describes it as such, by which he means that via the tricky use of words, one can have power over others. Those most adept at this are termed ""slang-whangers"", while Congress is a ""blustering, windy assembly"". Mustapha describes how: ""unknown to these people themselves, their government is a"
"of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in lawmaking. While representative democracy is sometimes equated with the republican form of government, the term ""republic"" classically has encompassed both democracies and aristocracies. Many democracies are constitutional monarchies, such as the United Kingdom. The term ""democracy"" first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens during classical antiquity. The word comes from ""demos"", ""common people"" and ""kratos"", ""strength"". Led by Cleisthenes, Athenians established what is generally held as the first democracy in 508–507 BC. Cleisthenes is referred to as ""the father of Athenian"
"Tetrarchy The term ""tetrarchy"" (from the , ""tetrarchia"", ""leadership of four [people]"") describes any form of government where power is divided among four individuals, but in modern usage usually refers to the system instituted by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 293, marking the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and the recovery of the Roman Empire. This tetrarchy lasted until c. 313, when mutually destructive conflict eliminated most of the claimants to power, leaving Constantine in control of the western half of the empire, and Licinius in control of the eastern half. Although the term ""tetrarch"" was current in"
"Noocracy Noocracy ( or ), or ""aristocracy of the wise"", as defined by Plato, is a social and political system that is ""based on the priority of human mind"", according to Vladimir Vernadsky. It was also further developed in the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The word itself is derived from Greek nous, Gen. noos (νους) meaning ""mind"" or ""intellect"", and ""kratos"" (κράτος), ""authority"" or ""power"". One of the first attempts to implement such a political system was perhaps Pythagoras' ""city of the wise"" that he planned to build in Italy together with his followers, the order of ""mathematikoi""."