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Ch. 9 Sect. 3 Vocab
Europe Geography & History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |