dearment vocab

autocracy

government in which one person possess unlimited power

feudalism

the system of political organization prevailing in the Middle Ages having as its basis the relation of the lord to vassal based mostly on land

Fundamentalism

A movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles

Heretic

One who differs in opinion from an accepted belief or doctrine

Mercantilism

An economic system to unify and increase the power and especially the monetary wealth of a nation by a strict governmental regulation of the entire national economy

Oligarchy

Government by the few

Scarcity

The fundamental imbalance between limited resources and unlimited human wants

Secular

Not overtly or specially religious

Sovereignty

Supreme power especially over a body politic or freedom from external control

Theocracy

Government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided

Vernacular

Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary cultures or foreign language

Zealot

A fanatical partisan (person who adheres to a party,faction,cause or person)