Get these flashcards, study & pass exams. For free! Even on iPhone/Android!

Greek term for ''city-state

Term derived from Greek, meaning ''love-of-wisdom''

Head of the Roman Catholic Church

Feudal made up of a manor house, castle, and land

Written agreement guaranteeing privileges and freedoms

Great and often violent change

System of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages

Economic, social, and political system based on the teachings of Karl Marx, which advocated the elimination of private property

Mass murder of a person because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture

Economic system that allows private ownership and open competition of businesses

Form of government in which citizens choose the nation's leaders by voting for them

Nation with a strong national government headed by elected leaders

Political and social system in which a lord gave land to a noble to work, govern, and defend, in return of for the noble's loyalty

Peasant laborer

To improve by changing

Formal agreement that establishes the basis for a country's laws

Political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries

Systematic murder by Adolf Hitler and his followers of more than 12 million people, including 6 million European Jews, during WWII

Conflict between the U.S and the Soviet Union dating from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, when the two superpowers competed for world influence without declared military action at each other

Title of Russian emperor