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barter economy | system in which one set of goods is exchanged for another |
blizkrieg | German for lightning warfare; swift, massive attack, practiced by the armies of Nazi Germany |
brahma | in Hinduism, the single supreme force uniting everything in the universe |
bushido | the way of the warrior; during feudal period in Japan, a code of conduct for samurai, stressing obedience to one's lord |
caliph | successor to the prophet Muhammad who acted as both religious and political leader |
capital | money that can be invested in business |
capitalist | a person who invests in business in order to make a profit |
cash crop | crop that can be sold on the world market for money |
caste | social group based on birth; in India, caste determined the jobs people could hold and many other aspects of their life |
caudillo | during the 1800's in Latin America, a military dictator |
chivalry | code of conduct during the Middle Ages that combined Christian values with the values of a warrior |
city-state | independent town or city and the surrounding countryside |
civil disobedience | refusal to comply with certain laws by means of passive resistance (method Gandhi used) |
clan | family group that traces its origin to a common ancestor |
coaltion | temporary alliance between parties in government |
cold war | state of tension and hostility among nations without armed conflict (after WWII - between USA and USSR) |
collective farm | large government -run farm; created in the Soviet Union in the 1930s |
collective security | group of nations acting together to preserve peace |
collectivization | a system in which the state owns and controls the means of production and distribution |