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Europe and Russia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| woven cloth | textiles |
| measurement of the amount of work accomplished in a given time | productivity |
| Greek term for "city-state" | polis |
| term derived from Greek, meaning "love of wisdom" | philosophy |
| written agreement guaranteeing privileges and freedoms | charter |
| great and often violent change | revolution |
| system of building foreign empires for military and trade advantages | imperialism |
| economic, social, and political system based on the teachings of Karl Marx, which advocated the elimination of private property | communism |
| mass murder of a people because of their race, religion, ethnicity, politics, or culture | genocide |
| economic system that allows private ownership and open competition of businesses | capitalism |
| form of government in which citizens choose their nation's leaders by voting for them | democracy |
| nation with a strong national government headed by elected leaders | republic |
| to improve by changing | reform |
| formal agreement that establishes the basis for a country's laws | Constitution |
| political agreement between countries to support each other in disputes with other countries | alliance |
| systematic murder by Adolf Hitler and his followers of more than 12 million people, including 6 million European Jews, during World War II | Holocaust |
| conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union dating from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, when the two superpowers competed for world influence without declared military action at each other | Cold War |
| title of Russian emperor | czar |