Tyrants were appointed when there was a breakdown in the political system leading towards civil war. The function of the tyrant was to rule autocratically, but balancing the aspirations of the oligarchs on one hand and the lower orders on the other, to provide a fair compromise. Their problem was that when they had a fair system running for over a generation, the new generation forgot how bad things had been under the oligarchs, and expelled the tyrants for being oppressive, leaving themselves open to a return to the oligarchic oppression of earlier times.
Tyrants were appointed to avoid looming revolution by lower-class citizens in city-states. Their job was to strike a balance between a ruling aristocracy and the poorer farmers who were being plundered by those aristocrats..
They succeeded in this but the long term problem was that the tyrant had to employ a large bodyguard to protect himself from being murdered by the disgruntled aristocrats, and to pay them he had to impose a tax. The Greeks hated taxes, and eventually would expel the tyrant.
Because Britain and the U.S. were opposed to outright colonization.
They had many countries under control with the power that they had from trading opium. These countries were mainly who they interacted with and communicated with. This allowed them to not get involved in anything in the west.
The Seljuk Turks were a large and threatening force in the Middle East during the Middle Ages, and the Byzantine Empire suffered a crippling defeat at their hands at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. Taking advantage of this victory and the ensuing turmoil within the Empire, the Turks were able to seize most of Asia Minor and remained a threat to the Byzantines for the remainder of the Empire's existence. It was, in fact, a Turkish nation that dealt the death blow to the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
Serbia was to be blamed. Even though Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a terrorist group of Serbia working separately from the government, they were still aided by a high ranking government offical, and the government should be able to control what goes on among themselves and in their country. They should be able to prevent corruption. franz Ferdinand was assassinated by gavrilo princip, who was part of the black hand gang(a terrorist group of Serbia) that all tried to assassinate franz Ferdinand.
They discovered the Southern Route to the Indian Ocean, via Cape Hope, established trading enclaves at Indian Ocean Ports like Macau, and enforced their trade monopoly with Cannon, Ships, and Fortifications. They were tough, able, Mariners and Traders and they broke the Spice Monopoly belonging to the Arab Traders before them.
spartans have the control in athens
Because the tyrants forced a traded democracy.
the tyrants were able to seize power from the nobles because they had the help and support of the Greek farmers, merchants, and the artisans.
They were able to seize control because they had the support of Greek farmers, merchants and artisans, who were sick and tired of being exploited - the tyrants were appointed to bring in rule for all, not just the upper class.
They did not seize power in Athens. They were Athenian citizens who took over Athens with wide public support to put an end to the self-centered rule of the upper-class oligarchs, and bring equity to all classes.
the tyrants were able to seize power from the nobles because they had the help and support of the Greek farmers, merchants, and the artisans.
Athens had an internal dispute bordering on civil war between its different classes of people - essentially against the ruling aristocracy. The tyrants were brought in by popular acclaim to establish a government which looked after all citizens, not just the interests of a few.
Athens had an internal dispute bordering on civil war between its different classes of people - essentially against the ruling aristocracy. The tyrants were brought in by popular acclaim to establish a government which looked after all citizens, not just the interests of a few.
The answer here is simple. tyrants were able to seize control over greek nobles by protecting their grounds and standing guard for trespassers who wished to control their land!~! ALexa ANn Somebody!~!
There was a new Tyrant named peisestratus he took over the government. He gave citizenship to athenians who did not own land. Sincereligion was important in sthens peisistratus built additional shrines to diffrent gods. The Tyrant were doing more things than the athens
because France had a weak government
The police were able to seize the drugs during the raid.