LifePac History 801 Vocabulary Words
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- anarchy
- the absence of a system of government and law
- circumnavigate
- to sail around
- institution
- a club, society, or any organization established for some special purpose
- monopoly
- complete control of an article or service
- viceroy
- a person who rules a country or province, actin as the king's or queen's representative
- advocate
- a person who speaks in favor of something; a supporter
- implacable
- not capable of being appeased; significantly changed or mitigated
- Jesuit
- a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 and devoted to missionary and educational work
- mutiny
- an open rebelling against lawful authority, especially by sailors or soldiers against their officers
- portage
- a carrying of boats or provisions overland from one river or lake to another
- privateer
- an armed private ship commissioned to sail against the trade or warships of an enemy
- seasonal
- occurring at a particular season; happening at regular intervals
- succession
- the order or arrangement of persons having the right to succeed to an office, property or rank
- autocratic
- a system that gives one person unlimited power
- cannibalism
- when a person eats the flesh of another human being
- dissident
- a person who disagrees in opinion
- hierarchy
- an organization of persons or things arranged into higher and lower ranks, classes or grades
- indenture
- to bind by contract in which a person is required to serve or work for someone else
- mestizo
- a person of mixed blood; in Spanish America, a person of Spanish and Indian blood
- minority
- a group within a country, state or other area that is different from the larger part of the population in some way, such as race or religion
- reprisal
- an injury done in return for an injury, especially by one nation or group to another
- serf
- a peasant in the Medieval Age who was almost a slave and could not be sold off their land but were sold and inherited with the land
- tenuous
- thin or slight; not substantial
- despotic
- having a ruler who exercises absolute power abusively, oppressively or tyrannically
- strategic
- useful in the planning and direction of military operations