Global History & GeographyVocabulary List #4

Chivalry

• The code of conduct followed by knights during the Middle Ages

Civilization• Community characterized by elements such as a system

of writing, development of social classes and cities

Collective

• Large farm owned and operated by workers as a group

Conservatism

• Set of beliefs held by those who want to preserve traditional ways

Containment

• Cold War policy that involved limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control

Coup d’etat

• A revolt by a small group intended to overthrow a government

Cuneiform

• Writing of ancient Mesopotamia

Desert

• Dry barren land

Diaspora• A scattering of people, as when the Jewish people were

forced to leave their homeland in Palestine

Dictator

• Leader with total power and control

Dynasty

• Ruling family

Enclosure

• Process of taking over and fencing off land once shared by peasant farmers

Excommunicate

• To exclude from the Roman Catholic Church as penalty for refusing to obey church laws

Fascism

• The rule of a people by a dictatorial government that is nationalistic and imperialistic

Feudalism

• Social, political and economic system where land and protection is exchanged for service and loyalty

Gentry

• Wealthy landowning class

Glasnost

• “Openness”, relaxation of censorship in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev

Gothic

• Style of European 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

Haiku

• Form of Japanese poetry that expresses a feeling, thought, or idea in three lines typically about nature

Vocabulary Quiz #4

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