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Given the MEANING, identify the HISTORICAL WORD
1. fortress or elevated part of Greek city, especially Athens
Answer: acropolis 2. group of islands
Answer: archipelago 3. government headed by privileged class or nobility
Answer: aristocracy
4. end of hostilities in a war
Answer: armistice 5. killing by treacherous violence
Answer: assassination 6. instrument formerly used to calculate altitudes and locations
Answer: astrolabe 7. government in which the ruler has absolute, unlimited power
Answer: autocracy 8. flag of country, king, knight, army especially in battle
Answer: banner 9. intensive attack; lightning warfare practised by Nazi German armies
Answer: blitzkrieg 10. fortress protecting a city
Answer: citadel 11. family group with a common ancestor
Answer: clan 12. form of complete socialism with public ownership of all land, means of production and goods
Answer: communism 13. government by the people where citizens have voting and ruling powers
Answer: democracy 14. group of territories controlled by an emperor
Answer: empire 15. lasting hostility between two families or tribes
Answer: feud 16. killing or extermination of a whole race or nation
Answer: genocide 17. group of persons who together make laws and govern a State
Answer: government 18. irregular war by small bodies
Answer: guerrilla, guerilla 19. leadership or dominance of one nation over others
Answer: hegemony 20. killing of millions of Jews by Nazis during WWII; wholesale sacrifice or destruction by fire
Answer: holocaust 21. image used as object of worship; often God carved in stone or wood
Answer: idol 22. inability to read or write; need for learning
Answer: illiteracy 23. hostile attack and encroachment of city or country
Answer: invasion 24. government abstention from interference with the economy and individual action
Answer: laissez faire 25. hammer-like weapon of medieval times
Answer: mace 26. land and its rights held by the lord during the feudal period
Answer: manor 27. glorification of or reliance on military forces and prepared for war
Answer: militarism 28. imperial or royal ruler with complete authority
Answer: monarch 29. government, system or State under a single imperial or royal ruler
Answer: monarchy 30. exclusive control of the trade in a certain product
Answer: monopoly 31. impartial in a dispute or taking neither side
Answer: neutral 32. journey to a holy place for religious reasons
Answer: pilgrimage 33. estate for cultivation
Answer: plantation 34. inspired teacher who predicts future or interprets God's will
Answer: prophet 35. killing of a king
Answer: regicide 36. forcible replacement of government or overthrowing of ruler
Answer: revolution 37. killing of a victim as an offering to the Gods
Answer: sacrifice 38. grassy plains in tropical regions of America
Answer: savannah 39. insufficiency or inadequate supply
Answer: scarcity 40. laborer bound to and transferred with the land
Answer: serf 41. helpless person made to do hard work and who is the property of the master
Answer: slave 42. government or State where God is sovereign, religion is law, and priests are kings
Answer: theocracy 43. group of persons under recognized chiefs
Answer: tribe
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