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16 Cards in this Set
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a large, flat area of land, usually without many trees
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Plain
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bodies of land surrounded by water on three sides
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Penninsulas
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a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea located betwen steep cliffs
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Fjord
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a system in which a ew powerful, wealthy individuals rule
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Oligarchy
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a central city with surrounding villages
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City-state
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a person who studies and thinks about the way the world is the way that is is
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Pholosopher
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a city state included a central city called this
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Polis
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a nation in which power belongs to the citizens, who govern themselves through elected representatives
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Republic
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Roman assembly of elected representatives
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Senate
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an ordinary working male citizen of ancient Rome
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Plebian
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in ancient Rome, a member of a wealthy, landowning family who claimed to be able to trace its toots back to founding of Rome
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Patrician
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a nation or group of teriitories reled by a single powerful leader or emporer
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Empire
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an organization for establishing wages, prices and workers' rights
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Guild
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referring to the Middle Ages
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Medieval
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a system in which peasants worked for a lord in exchange for his protection
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Manorialism
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a system in which kings gave land to nobles
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Feudalism
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