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Which form of government practiced in certain Greek city state describes rule by an individual who assumes absolute power by seizing control illegally often with the support of the lower classes

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Answer:Tyranny, in the Greco-Roman world, an autocratic form of rule in which one individual exercised power without any legal restraint. In antiquity the word tyrant was not necessarily pejorative and signified the holder of absolute political power.

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