Readers will discover how six of the world's most important styles of governance came to exist. Each volume in this new Rosen Central series identifies the essential elements of a political system as the system developed and was utilized. Clear narration highlights pivotal people, events, documents, and artifacts in each of the six political systems History is brought to life with images of influential primary source documents. Each title in this important series offers the history and clear overviews certain to be extremely useful to students who are learning about governments of the world.