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CCS Global Vocab. #8
CCSD Embargo-Extraterritoriality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| embargo | a ban or trade: an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| emigration | movement away from one's homeland |
| empire | group of states or territories controlled by one ruler |
| enclosure | in England in the 1700’s, the process of taking over and fencing off public lands |
| encomienda | right of the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans |
| enlightened despot | absolute ruler who uses his or her power to bring about political and social change |
| epidemic | outbreak of rapidly spreading disease |
| entente | nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |
| ethnic cleansing | policy of killing or forcibly removing people of certain ethnic groups |
| ethnocentrism | characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior |
| euro | common currency used by member nations of the European Union |
| excommunicate | exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church laws |
| expansionism | policy of increasing the amount of territory a government holds |
| exploitation | to make use of meanly or unjustly for one's own advantage (taking advantage) |
| extended family | family that includes one household near relatives in addition to a nuclear family (nuclear family-a family group that consists of only a father, mother, and children) |
| extraterritoriality | right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation |