Explorers
He conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Cortes?
One person or a small group gain power by force.
What is a dictatorship?
A government where there are elected representatives and officials and they lead and have power of the country.
What is a representative democracy?
Limited the monarch's power for the first time.
What is the Magna Carta?
A refusal to buy.
What is a boycott?
Was looking for the Seven Cities of Gold
Who is Coronado?
The absence of government or authority.
What is anarchy?
A way of government that favors the will of the people.
What is a democracy?
Believed to avoid chaos, governments should have absolute power.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
A crime committed by betraying your country such as overthrowing the government.
What is treason?
He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
Citizens vote personally for all laws and issues.
What is direct democracy?
A system where the government owns everything and makes sure everyone shares equally
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What is communism?
Believed that power should be divided to avoid any one group from getting two powerful.
Who is Charles de Secondat?
A person chosen to represent a group.
What is a delegate?
He was Norse explorer from Iceland.
Who is Erickson?
A system of government where power is inherited based on birth right into a royal family.
What is a monarchy?
A small group of rich or powerful people run the government
What is an oligarchy?
Limited the king's power, requiring Parliament's approval for things like raising taxes.
What is the Petition of Rights?
A partner in war or a country that supports another.
What is an ally?
He conquered the Incan empire in Peru.
Who is Pizarro?
A union of states that retain most of the power.
What is confederacy?
Power is shared between the national government and smaller state of regional governments.
What is federalism?
Believed in the natural rights of life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
This act required the colonists to provide housing and supplies to the British troops that remained in America after the French and Indian war.
What is the Quartering Act?