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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas
What is a conquistador?
100
professional storyteller in early West Africa
What is s griot?
100
instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars
What is an astrolabe?
100
emigre noble who opposed constitutional government an favored return of the old ways
What is an ultra-royalist?
100
adoption of Western ideas, technology and culture
What is Westernization?
200
money taken in through taxes
What is revenue?
200
principle by which monarchies that had been unseated by Napoleon were restored
What is legitimacy?
200
in Japanese feudal society, supreme military commander
What is a shogun?
200
distribution of power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong
What is balance of power?
200
war fought between two groups of people in the same nation
What is a civil war?
300
melt in order to get the pure metal away from its waste matter
What is to smelt?
300
place in which workers and machines are brought together to produce quantities of goods
What is a factory?
300
idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the most
What is utilitarianism?
300
colonist who supported Britain during the American Revolution
What is a Loyalist?
300
travel all the way around the earth
What is circumnavigate?
400
a large estate run by an owner and worked by laborers who live there
What is a plantation?
400
representative who ruled Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name
What is a viceroy?
400
government in which power is divided between the national government and the states
What is a federal republic?
400
business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment
What is a corporation?
400
system of thought and belief
What is ideology?
500
right that belongs to all human beings at birth
What is a natural right?
500
person who assumes financial risks in the hope of making a profit
What is an entrepreneur?
500
form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx
What is communism?
500
association of large corporations formed to fix prices
What is a cartel?
500
a small political group
What is a faction?