How does the author primarily structure the text? A. By describing the characteristics of all the major Greek city-states. B. By focusing on the development of societies chronologically. C. By comparing different city-states and their eventual conflicts. D. By discussing the impacts of city-states on society today.

The correct answer is C) By comparing different city-states and their eventual conflicts.

The author primarily structures the text by comparing different city-states and their eventual conflicts.

Although you did not mention the name of the text or its reference, here we are talking about the text called "The Rise of Greek City-States: Athens Versus Sparta."

What the author does is to write about ancient Greece and its two most important city-states: Athens and Sparta, and how these city-states developed alliances with other Greek city-states, that end up confronting in the Peloponnesian Wars. The author says that Athens was a cultural place where great philosophers developed great knowledge, meanwhile, Sparta was a city-state known by their fierce warriors.

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answer: a parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature, typically a parliament, and is also held accountable to that parliament. in a parliamentary system, the head of state is usually a person distinct from the head of government. this is in contrast to a presidential system, where the head of state often is also the head of government and, most importantly, the executive does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature.

countries with parliamentary democracies may be constitutional monarchies, where a monarch is the head of state while the head of government is almost always a member of parliament (such as the united kingdom, denmark, sweden, and japan), or parliamentary republics, where a mostly ceremonial president is the head of state while the head of government is regularly from the legislature (such as ireland, germany, india, and italy). in a few parliamentary republics, such as botswana, south africa, and suriname, among some others, the head of government is also head of state, but is elected by and is answerable to parliament. in bicameral parliaments, the head of government is generally, though not always, a member of the lower house.

parliamentarianism is the dominant form of government in europe, with 32 of its 50 sovereign states being parliamentarian. it is also common in the caribbean, being the form of government of 10 of its 13 island states, and in oceania. elsewhere in the world, parliamentary countries are less common, but they are distributed through all continents, most often in former colonies of the british empire that subscribe to a particular brand of parliamentarianism known as the westminster system.

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