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| Leftist | a person who favors change or reforms usually in the name of greater |
| legislative | Relating to a system that makes laws. |
| Lenin Vladimir | (1870-1924) Russian revolutionary leader and political |
| Leviathan | A book written by Thomas Hobbes describing his theory that an |
| liberation theology | movement in the 1960s and 1970s urging the Roman Catholic Church to take more active role in changing the social conditions that contributed to poverty and oppression in Latin America |
| liberty | In the political sense this usually means freedom. |
| life expectancy | probable length of life for an individual |
| line of demarcation | A boundary established by Pope Alexander VI on in 1493 |
| Joseph Lister | (1827-1912) English surgeon who discovered that germs cause |
| Literacy | the ability to read and write |
| Little Red Book | A book circulated throughout China during the reign of Mao |
| David Lloyd George | (1863-1945) British Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922 |
| John Locke | (1632-1704) English philosopher and political theorist. He wrote |
| Long March | March the Mao Zedong and his Communist Party underwent to |
| Long Parliament | (1640 – 1660) English Parliament which met off and on for |
| Longitude | The curving distance east or west of the prime meridian that |
| Louis XIV | (1638-1715) Known as the Sun King he was an absolute monarch |
| Louis XVI | (1754-1793) King of France between 1774 and 1792. He was |
| Lord | in the Middle Ages powerful noble who maintained his own land but |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | (1743?-1803) Revolutionary leader who is |
| Ignatius Loyola | (1491-1556) Founded the Society of Jesus the Order of the |
| Martin Luther | (1483-1546) Theologian and religious reformer who started |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | (1469-1527) Italian historian statesman and political |
| Ferdinand Magellan | (1480?-1521) Spanish explorer who was the first to |
| Magna Carta | A document granting rights to both the Church in England and |
