Unit 3 More Review Terms Flashcards
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303221367 | Absolute Monarch | ruler with complete control over the government and the lives of the people. | 0 | |
303221368 | Agrarian | concerning farms, farmers, or the use of land | 1 | |
303221369 | Atheists | People who belive that no god exists | 2 | |
303221370 | Capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth. | 3 | |
303221371 | Cash Crop | a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco) | 4 | |
303221372 | Circumnavigate | to sail completely around the world | 5 | |
303221373 | Colonization | system of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land | 6 | |
303221374 | Commerce | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | 7 | |
303221375 | Commonwealth | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 8 | |
303221376 | Convent | a religious community in which women, or nuns live and pray | 9 | |
303221377 | Currency | system of money | 10 | |
303221378 | Deists | Influenced by the spirit of rationalism, Desists believed that God, like a celestial clockmaker, had created a perfect universe and then had stepped back to let it operate according to natural laws. | 11 | |
303221379 | Demography | scientific study of human populations | 12 | |
303221380 | Divine Right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. | 13 | |
303221381 | Hedonism | an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | 14 | |
303221382 | Humanism | a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance | 15 | |
303221383 | Left-Wing | the liberal, socialist, or radical section of a political party or system | 16 | |
303221384 | Mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 17 | |
303221385 | Monarchy | an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | 18 | |
303221386 | Monastic | a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | 19 | |
303221387 | Monk | a religious male living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | 20 | |
303221388 | Monopoly | exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices | 21 | |
303221389 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 22 | |
303221390 | Papacy/Papal | The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head. (pp. 258, 445) | 23 | |
303221391 | Parliament | the lawmaking body of British government | 24 | |
303221392 | Patriarch | title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | 25 | |
303221393 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 26 | |
303221394 | Revolution | the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | 27 | |
303221395 | Right-Wing | conservative, Conservative ideology in which change is opposed and the traditional way of doing things is encouraged | 28 | |
303221396 | Salvation | (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | 29 | |
303221397 | Sanctioned | established by authority | 30 | |
303221398 | Subsistence | existence; means of subsisting; means of support; livelihood; V. subsist: exist; maintain life (at a meager level) | 31 | |
303221399 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 32 | |
303221400 | Utopia | a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island | 33 | |
303221401 | Vassals | lesser lords who pledged their service and loyalty to a greater lord -- in a military capacity | 34 | |
303221402 | Venerate | (v.) to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect | 35 | |
303221403 | Vernacular | everyday speech; slang | 36 |