Aristocracy: Difference between revisions
From Polcompball Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
Content added Content deleted
Fsclander256 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Thugtholomew (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 119: | Line 119: | ||
[[File:Soc-h.png]] Revolts (when not led by him) [[File:Lpop.png]]<br> |
[[File:Soc-h.png]] Revolts (when not led by him) [[File:Lpop.png]]<br> |
||
[[File:Ochlo.png]] Revolting Plebs |
[[File:Ochlo.png]] Revolting Plebs |
||
}} |
|||
{{Quote| |
|||
quote=“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.” |
|||
|speaker=[[File:Carlyle.png]] [[Classical Conservatism|Thomas Carlyle]] |
|||
}} |
}} |
||
'''Aristocracy''' translating from Greek to '''Rule of the excellent''' or '''Rule of the best''' is a system of government where political power is concentrated within a relatively small class of formal nobility or gentry, a privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110629022358/http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50011987?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=aristocracy&first=1&max_to_show=10 "Aristocracy"] [[w:Oxford_English_Dictionary|Oxford English Dictionary]] December 1989.</ref>. The term derives from the greek ''aristokratia'' meaning the rule of the excellent. |
'''Aristocracy''' translating from Greek to '''Rule of the excellent''' or '''Rule of the best''' is a system of government where political power is concentrated within a relatively small class of formal nobility or gentry, a privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110629022358/http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50011987?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=aristocracy&first=1&max_to_show=10 "Aristocracy"] [[w:Oxford_English_Dictionary|Oxford English Dictionary]] December 1989.</ref>. The term derives from the greek ''aristokratia'' meaning the rule of the excellent. |
||
