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| republic | a government in which citizens elect the leaders |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| constitution | a plan of government |
| moderate | one who holds moderate views or one who belongs to a moderate group favoring a moderate course or program |
| minority | A part of a population differing from others in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment |
| solon | a. a wise and skillful lawgiver. b. A member of a legislative body |
| reparation | compensation for war damage |
| nation | a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government |
| patriarch | in the early Christian Church, one of five powerful bishops in major cities |
| theocracy | government headed by religious leaders or a leader regarded as a god |
| federal | a supporter in the Civil War; especially a soldier in the federal armies |
| guerilla | a person who engages in irregular warfare as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage |
| nationalism | pride in one’s own nation’s desire for independence |
| martial law | temporary military rule limiting rights such as free speech |
| buffer zone | a neutral area separating conflicting forces; an area designed to separate |
| dynasty | a line of rulers who belong to the same family |
| Democracy | form of government in which the citizens hold power |
| Despot | a Byzantine emperor or prince; a bishop or patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church; a ruler with absolute power or authority |
| Medieval | a person of the middle ages |
| Agrarian | a member of an agrarian party or movement; of or relating to lands or their tenure |
| Conservative | tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions; traditional |
| Regent | a person who acts as a temporary ruler |
| Indemnity | payment for damages or losses |
| Country | a political state or nation or it’s territory |
| Heretic | a dissenter from established church dogma; especially a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church who disavows a revealed truth |
| Capitalism | an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and by the distribution of words that are determined mainly by competition free market. |
| Socialism | political theory that society as a whole should control the means of production, such as factories and land |
| Coup | a brilliant, sudden, and usually highly successful stroke or act |
| Cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| Ideology | the system of beliefs and attitudes that guides the actions of a group or nation |
| Abdicate | to brush off responsibility, to relinquish |
| Schism | the division of the Christian Church in 1054 that separated the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Empire | a group of territories or nations ruled by a single ruler or government |
| Absolute Monarchy | a ruler has complete control over government |
| Totalitarianism | idea that a dictorial government should control all aspects of citizen’s lives |
| Sovereign | one that exercises supreme authority within a limited sphere |
| Liberal | one who is open minded in the observance of orthodox, traditional, or established forms or ways OR an advocate or adherent of liberalism especially in individual rights |
| Majority | the quality or state of being greater |
| Stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 B.C holding that the wise man should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submissive to natural law OR one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| Propaganda | news and information intended to influence people’s feelings about a cause |
| Imperialism | policy of building an empire |
| Divine Right | political theory that a ruler derives his or her power directly from God and is accountable only to god |
| Coalition | a temporary alliance to differing political factors |
| Anarchy | absence of political authority |
| Nationalize | to bring a private industry under government control |
| Isolationism | a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations |
