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- exile
- the act of expelling a person from their native land
- capitalism
- an economic system based on private ownership of capital
- arable
- (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
- growing season
- the average number of days between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall.
- democracy
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- dictator
- A ruler who has complete power over a country
- ally
- a friendly nation
- monarchy
- an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
- cash crop
- A crop grown for sale rather than for the farmer's use
- constitutional monarchy
- constitution that explains the powers of the government and owes allegiance to a monarch
- communism
- a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society