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A government by the people, citizens vote.
What is DEMOCRACY.
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is MONARCHY.
A ruler who has complete power over a country.
What is a DICTATOR.
A ruling family would be known as.
What is a DYNASTY.
Restricting access to ideas and information.
What is CENSORSHIP.
The rights a person is born with (Life, Liberty, Property).
What are NATURAL RIGHTS.
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is CITY-STATE.
To embrace new ideas and technology, conflict between tradition and change.
What is MODERNIZATION.
A government ruled by a few powerful people.
What is an OLIGARCHY.
Economic System during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land.
What is MANORIALISM.
The value of a nation's exports minus the value of its imports; also called net exports.
What is TRADE BALANCE.
Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. One part of a three-part economic system known as the Middle Passage of the Triangular Trade.
What is the ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.
A group of the most wealthy and privileged, the upper class.
Who are the ARISTOCRACY.
The belief that all living and nonliving things in nature have a spirit.
What is ANIMISM.
Trade route opened in 1492, as it was faster and cheaper than land trade.
What is TRANSATLANTIC EXPLORATION.
A set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society, no social mobility.
What is the CASTE SYSTEM.
A system in which goods and enslaved people were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is the TRIANGULAR TRADE.
An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western--especially European or American--countries.
What is WESTERNIZATION.
A political system in which a ruler holds total power.
What is ABSOLUTISM.
Roman Peace, a period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A. D. 180.
What is PAX ROMANA.
Monsoon winds encouraged trade between India and Africa.
What is the INDIAN OCEAN.
A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but class rank matters.
What is HAMMURABI'S CODE.
A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE.
A city founded as the second capital of the Roman Empire; later became the capital of the Byzantine Empire, built by Emperor Constantine.
What is CONSTANTINOPLE.
Laws of the Byzantine empire based the twelve tables of Roman law, became a basis for laws in many European nations.
What are JUSTINIAN CODES.