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