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Policies
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Methods and plans governments use to do their work.
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Empire
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A large collection of people and lands ruled by a single government.
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Pax Romana
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Roman peace; a 200-year period of peace that began when Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, took power in 27 B.C.
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Feudalism
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A kind of society in which people worked and sometimes fought for a local lord in return for protection and the use of land.
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Middle Ages
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The period in European history between ancient and modern times; approximately A.D. 500-1500
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Serf
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A person who lived on and farmed a lord's land in feudal times; he or she did not own land and depended on the lord for protection.
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