Monarch
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Armenian king Tigranes the Great.
A monarch is a ruler who rules because his parents ruled. A male monarch is called a king. A female monarch is called a queen. Some monarchs are called emperors or empresses. It is a system of ruling, in which ruling starts off by a member of a family and is ruled, one by one by a member, and continues till end of a family. Monarchs were very common in history. A lot of countries used to have a monarch, but no longer have them. They are now republics. Some countries that still have monarchs have other leaders that actually have the power. These are called constitutional monarchies.