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| Revolution | A complete change in the way a country is governed. |
| Astronomy | The scientific study of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. |
| Inquisition | A special court of the Roman Catholic Church, established in the 13th century. |
| Industrial Revolution | The period of great change in the way people worked and lived, brought about by the invention of power-driven machines. |
| Factory | An industrial plant. |
| Standard of Living | A measure of how well people live. |
| Capital | Wealth in the form of goods or money used for making more goods. |
| Profit | The gain made from selling a product or service over the cost of producing or purchasing the product or service. |
| Free Enterprise | A type of economy in which people have many choices about how to make and spend their money. |
| Parliament | The lawmaking body of the United Kingdom. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | A kind of government in which the monarch's powers are limited by a constitution. |
| Guillotine | A machine for beheading people that was introduced in France during the French Revolution. |
