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Ch. 9 Sect. 3 Vocab
Europe Geography & History
Term | Definition |
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navigation | the science of finding position and planning routes |
colony | an area controlled by a distant country |
textile | related to cloth or clothing |
factory system | a way of working in which each person works on only one part of a product |
radical | a person who wants an extreme change or holds an extreme political position |
guillotine | a machine used to execute people during the French Revolution |
natural rights | rights such as life, liberty, and property that people possess at birth |
apartheid | the legal separation of the races; a system that denied black South Africans their rights |
nationalism | a strong sense of loyalty to one's country |
trench | a long ditch that protects soldiers from enemy gunfire |
reparations | after a war, money paid as punishment, usually by the aggressors in the conflict |
concentration camp | an area where Jews and others were held during World War II and murdered by the Nazis |