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Regents review
Global I&II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 95 Theses | Document written by Martin Luther detailing what he believed to be the problems in the medieval Church |
| absolute monarchy : | A political system in which a country is ruled by a monarch, who has absolute control. |
| agriculture | The cultivating of land, producing of crops, and raising of livestock for human consumption. |
| Animism | The oldest known type of belief system in the world. It is still practiced in a variety of forms in many traditional societies. Animists practice nature worship. They believe that everything in the universe has a spirit. |
| anti-Semitism | The hatred of people of Jewish descent. |
| appeasement | The policy of pacifying an aggressive nation in the hopes of avoiding further conflict. |
| archipelago . | A group or chain of islands |
| Battle of Britain | The massive air war against Great Britain by the Nazi war machine in Germany. Nearly nightly bombings occurred between summer of 1940 and summer of 1941 before German withdrew. Great Britain fought alone during this year and never gave up. |