| A | B |
|---|
| absolute monarchy | the king has complete power to govern |
| divine right | the belief that the monarch's power came from God |
| revolution | a sudden or great change |
| estates | social classes |
| aristocracy | made up the second estate, included members of noble families |
| peasants | along with merchants, lawyers and craftmakers they made up the third estate, almost 98% of the population, they were the farm workers |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | a statement that called for fair taxation and freedom of religion |
| Reign of Terror | a period of cruelty when suspected enemies of the revolution were executed |
| Latin America | a cultural region south of the United States that was strongly influenced by Spain, Portugal, and France |
| mestizo | people of mixed Native American and European ancestry |
| confederation | a group of providences or states under a central government |
| Industrial Revolution | a period of time when great technological advances changed the way goods were made and the ways people lived |
| textile | a cloth fabric that is either woven or knitted |
| factory | large buildings built to house new machines |
| middle class | made up of business people, including merchants, lawyers, factory owners and bankers |
| working class | mostly farmers who left farms to work in towns and cities |
| socialism | a system of society based on the ideas of Marx in which workers would own and control all property, social classes would disappear |
| gross domestic product | the total value of goods and services produced by a country during a certain period of time, usually one year |
| cartogram | a special kind of map that presents economic or other kinds of information |
| imperialism | the extension of a nation's power over other lands by military, political, or economic means |
| Meiji Restoration | when leaders of several samuri groups returned control of Japan to emperor Meiji |
| bureaucracy | a large organization that runs the daily business of governement |
