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Persepolis
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Persepolis | capital of ancient Persia |
| obligatory | legally or morally binding |
| bilingual | knowing or using to languages |
| predecessors | one who comes before |
| tyranny | form of government with an absolute dictator |
| submission | yielding |
| revolution | drastic change in thoughts/beleifs |
| imperialism | a foreign governments control |
| forbid | to command against |
| fanatics | people motivated my irrational enthusiasm |
| massacre | to kill a large number of people indiscriminately |
| denigrate | to lessen in importance |
| bolsheviks | the communist party in russia in 1917 |
| rabble | the lowest class of people |
| clandestine | done in secrecy |
| revolt | to rise against authority |
| effigy | a crude image of a person |
| exiled | expulsion for one's native land by authoritive decree |
| phenomenon | an occurance that can be observed |
| liberated | freed from social or economic restraints |
| guerillas | politicly motivated armed force, that combats the army or police |
| diabolical | devilish |
| irretreivable | irrepearable |
| republic | a state in which the supreme power lies with the people |
| fundamentalism | a strict adherance to any basic set of ideals or principals |