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geography
Geography chapters 12-13 crap
| crap | other crap |
|---|---|
| multicultural | having one or more cultures |
| refugee | people who flee to a foreign country for safety |
| city-state | in ancient Greece, independent community consisting of a city and the surrounding lands, where democracy first developed |
| feudalism | a system in which powerful lords gave land to nobles in the return for pledges and loyalty |
| Crusades | a series of religious wars to win Palestine from Muslim rule |
| Renaissance | a 300-year period of learning and the arts |
| reformation | a religious movement that lessened the power of the Roman catholic church and led to the beginning of Protestantism |
| communism | an economic and political system designed to establish classless societies in which workers would control industrial production |
| Holocaust | the mass killing of 6 million European Jews and others by Germany's Nazi leaders |
| cold war | a power struggle between the Communist world, led by the U.S. |
| dialect | local forms of language |
| language family | a group of related languages that developed from an earlier language |
| Romanticism | art form that tried to show feelings and emotions |