| A | B |
|---|
| Truman Doctrine | an economic and military program the U.S. designed |
| neutral | not taking sides |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary line through Europe that divides democratic countries from communist countries |
| manorialism | an economic system structured around a lord's manor or estate |
| plebeian | member of the lower class in Ancient Rome this included merchants, artisans, farmers, and traders |
| propaganda | the spreading of ideas to promote a certain cause |
| samurai | member of warrior class in Japanese feudal society |
| serf | peasants bound to the land |
| cultural diffusion | exchange of ideas, customs, goods, and technologies among cultures |
| divine right | belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from God |
| Hellenistic | type of culture, resulting from Alexander the Great's conquest, blending of eastern and western influences |
| Enlightenment | period in the 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and suported a belief in human reason |
| ethnic cleansing | policy of forcibly removing or killilng of people of a certain ethnic group |
| secular | having to do with worldly rather than religious matters |
| patrician | member of the landowning upper class in ancient Rome |
