Europe & Russia
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- democracy
- a type of government in which people rule themselves through elected representatives
- empire
- a large collection of lands ruled by a single government
- feudalism
- a kind of society in which people worked and sometimes fought for a local lord in return for protection and use of the land.
- Renaissance
- a period of European history that included a rebirth of interest in learning and art, peaking in the 1500s.
- humanism
- an approach to knowledge that focused on worldly rather than religious values
- monarch
- the ruler of a kingdom or an empire, such as a king or a queen.
- colony
- a territory ruled by another nation.
- Scientific Revolution
- the movement that took place during the 1600s and the 1700s, when scientists began to base their study of the world on observable facts rather than beliefs.
- Industrial Revolution
- a period in European history during the early 1800s when products once made by hand in homes began to be made by machines in factories.
- imperialism
- the control by one country of the political and economic life of another country or region.
- nationalism
- pride in one's country; an elevation of one's own nation above others
- alliance
- a mutual agreement between countries to protect and defend each other.
- communism
- a theory of government in which property such as farms and factories is owned by the government for the benefit of all citizens; a political system in which the central government controls all aspects of citizens lives.
- civil war
- a war between groups within a country
- dictator
- a leader who has absolute power, for example, Josef Stalin in Russia
- Cold War
- a time of tension between the United States and the former Soviet Union without actual war; it lasted from about 1945 to 1991.