| A | B |
|---|
| Divine right | Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god |
| Dynasty | ruling family |
| Empire | group of states or territories governed by one ruler |
| English bill of rights | a set of acts passed by parliament to ensure its superiority over the monarchy and guarantee certain rights to citizens |
| Encomienda | system created by spanish government in the americas allowing colonist to demand labor or tribute from native americans |
| Enlightenment | the period in the 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and supported a belief in human reason |
| Estates general | a french legislative body made up of clergy, nobles, and comman people, such as businesspeople and peasants |
| Ethnic cleansing | policy of forcibly removing or killing people of a certain ethnic group |
| European Union | expansion of the european community in the 1980s and 1990s; sometimes abbreviated EU |
| Excommunicate | to exclude from the roman catholic church as a penalty for refusing to obey church laws |
| Fascism | the rule of a people by a dictatorial governmentthat is nationalistic and imperialistic |
| Feudalism | system of government in which local lords control their own lands but owe military service and other support to a grester lord |
| Five-year plan | one of a series of plans instituted by Joseph Stalin to build industry and increase farm output in the soviet union |
| Genocide | attempt to destory an entire ethnic or religious group |
| Glasnost | period of openness called for in the mid- 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev in the soviet union |
| Glorious Revolution | in britain, nonviolent overthrow of the government of james II that resulted in the reign of willian and mary |
| Gothic | style of european church architecture characterized by pointed arches and flying buttresses |
| Guild | a type of trade association of merchants or artisans that was active in the middle ages |
| Guomindang | Chinese nationalist party formed by Sun Yixian |
| Hanseatic League | trade association of northern german towns in the mid- 1300s |
| Hellenistic | type of culture, resulting from Alexander the great's conquests, that blended eastern and western influences |
