| A | B |
|---|
| blitzkreig | lightening war |
| Boers | Dutch colonist in South Africa |
| bourgeoisie | the middle class |
| boycott | refuse to use, buy, or deal with as a protest |
| Brahma | Hindu God who created the world |
| bushido | code of conduct for Samurai during the feudal period in Japan |
| caliph | successor to Muhammed |
| calligraphy | fancy or stylized handwriting |
| capital | money or wealth |
| capitalism | economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit |
| cash crop | crop grown for direct sale rather than for livestock feed |
| caste | unchangeable social group into which a person is born |
| chivalry | code of conduct for knights in the Middle Ages |
| city-state | political unit made up of the city and surrounding lands |
| civil disobedience | refusal to obey unjust law |
| clan | group of families with a common ancestor |
| coalition | temporary alliance of various political parties |
| Cold War | rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union from the end of WWII to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 |
| collective farm | large farm owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| collective security | system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
| collectivization | pooling of land and labor in an attempt to increase efficiency |
| colony | territory settled and ruled by people from another land |
| command economy | system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions |
| common law | system of law that is the same for all people |
| commonwealth | a nation or state governed by the people; a republic |
| communication | exchange of thoughts, information, or messages by speech, signals, or writing |
| communism | form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx stating that all wealth and property is owned by the community as a whole |
| confederation | unification |
| conquistador | Spanish explorer |
| conservation | controlled use and protection of natural resources |
| containment | Cold War policy of limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control |
| continent | one of the 7 great land masses on Earth |
| corporation | business owned by many investors who buy shares of stock and risk only the amount of their investment |
