Across
- 3. Explored the lower Mississippi
- 8. disease that killed thousands of Native Americans
- 11. Information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion.
- 15. French Conqueror who took over most of Europe
- 16. making money for the mother country in foreign lands
- 19. when the government owns the means of production
- 20. taking over a foreign place
- 21. non-catholic or non-orthodox Christian
- 22. man who invented separation of powers
- 23. Gatherings in which intellectual and political ideas were exchanged during the Enlightenment.
- 25. Scottish economist; he became the leading advocate of laissez faire economics and is considered by some to be the “father of modern economics.’ He wrote the first true text on economics, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776
- 26. Human-made goods and money
- 28. Sense of pride and devotion to ones nation.
- 30. part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
- 31. Union, what Russia is called under communism
- 32. Estate, Roman Catholic Church
- 34. Government by an absolute ruler or king.
- 40. Human effort used in production
- 41. The migration of people from rural areas to cities.
- 43. A time of optimism and possibility from the late 1600s to the late 1700s; also called the Age of Reason.
- 44. Efforts taken by US president Nixon in the late 1960s and early 1970s to lower Cold War tensions.
- 46. German “Lightning War" that utilizing speed and surprise to win quickly
- 47. Philosophers of the Enlightenment.
- 49. The first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union.
- 51. Explored area around Arizona, New Mexico and Texas
- 52. The killing of an entire people.
- 53. “Restructuring” ; restructuring of the corrupt government bureaucracy in the Soviet Union begun by Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 54. the belief that your race or culture is better than everyone else's
- 55. The governing body of England
- 56. making money for the mother country
- 57. An instrument that was used to navigate by the stars.
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- 1. The US policy adopted in the 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets.
- 2. Japanese suicide attacks by Japanese pilots during the Pacific theater of WWII
- 4. when the pope kicks you out of the church
- 5. the language of Brazil
- 6. Large land farms that usually grow one type of crop for profit.
- 7. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- 9. Renaissance painter from Italy
- 10. method, New approach to problem solving and discovery
- 12. An agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war.
- 13. Marxists whose goal was to seize power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communists.
- 14. Mexico and Central America that was civilized before the Spanish arrival.
- 17. making money for the mother country in new places
- 18. rebirth of art and learning after the end of the middle ages
- 24. In a war, not aiding either side.
- 27. the idea that God already knows who is going to be saved & only the "elect" go to heaven
- 29. The right to vote.
- 33. Economic system in which most of the businesses are privately owned.
- 35. An independent labor union found in Soviet-controlled Poland in 1980.
- 36. leader of the catholic church
- 37. A person with extreme views.
- 38. Warfare, A form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions.
- 39. your body has natural defenses to disease
- 42. 'National Razor'; A device used to behead people.
- 45. War, An era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the Us and the USSR in the decades following WWII.
- 48. not everything has to be about the church, thinking for yourself
- 50. When society changes from primarily agricultural society to one based on the manufacturing of goods and services