Unit 4 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a massive upheaval in ideas or ways of doing something, or the widescale change or transformation that occurs because of it
- 3. relating to a social system in which a father rules, and descent and succession are traced through the father
- 9. an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market
- 13. a form of nationalism wherein the nation is defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry
- 15. the middle class
- 17. concern for or devotion to one's own nation, especially desrire for national progress, defense, or independence
- 19. an eighteenth-century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason
- 23. a person who advocates fundamental or extreme social and political change
- 24. the power of self-government, with independence from outside control; autonomy
Down
- 1. a form of government in which power ultimately rest with the people, either directly or through elected representatives
- 3. the doctrine that a state to the will of the people who comprise that state
- 4. a person who favors the traditional and opposes rapid change
- 5. the quality or state of being independent; freedom from outside control
- 6. a person belonging by birth or naturalization to a political and geographic entity, especially a nation
- 7. the set of basic laws and principles by which a nation state or other organization is governed
- 8. one who believes in a progressive political philosophy, which favors government promotion of social change and the impotance of individual liberty
- 10. freedom and independence
- 11. a period of significant change that occured during the sixteenth and seventeenth century as new scientific discoveries and innovations transformed history
- 12. a high-ranking social class, having special priveleges and influence and usually determined by heredity
- 14. a sum of money levied by government on income, property, or sales and used for its services and administration
- 16. the modern autonomous (self-governing) nation, considered as a unit of political organization
- 18. a state or nation where supreme political power is exercised by elected representatives acting in the name of the people
- 20. a people living in the same geographic region and having a common history, language, and culture
- 21. an authoritarian governing system in which a heredity ruler holds complete power until death
- 22. the body of beliefs, symbols, and political and social aims that characterizes a particular group or institution