Geschichte bilingual/Glossary

Aus ZUM-Unterrichten


Today we're going to build a glossary for important historical terms. This list can help to build up a better range of vocabulary.

New proposals can be submitted to: https://zumpad.zum.de/p/bilingual-history-glossary

interactive quizzes


A

  • abolish; abolition
    to end a law, system or practice
  • absolutism
    form of government where a monarch rules with unlimited authority
  • age
    a period of time, e.g. the Dark Age, Industrial Age, age of discoveries
  • age of enlightenment
    reason and
  • aristocracy
    rule of nobility
  • assembly
    a meeting of people in one place for a purpose

B

  • borgeoisie (eng. middle class)

C

  • capitalism
  • clergy
  • commons
  • confederation
  • crop rotation
  • crusade

D

  • democracy
    rule of the people
  • duty, duties 

E

  • estates
  • evolution
    a slow development with gradual changes

G

  • gentleman
    a man of good manners; originally landed gentry (=land-owners)

H

  • human rights

L

  • labour
  • legislative
    law-making branch, parliament
  • liberal, liberalism

M

  • manor house
    residence of a lower nobleman; a very small palace
  • merchants
    people who trade goods
  • monarchy
    rule of a king

  N

  • nation, national

P

  • parliament
    elected representative of the people with advisory and legislative functions
  • people
  • president
    elected head of state
  • privilege - if you are allowed to do sth. special 

R

  • reaction
  • republic -
  • restauration
  •   revolution
    sudden change of a political system, property
  • riot

S

  • seperation of powers
    refers to the division of a state's government into three independent areas - executive, legislative, judiciary

T

  • triangle trade
    trade between three ports or regions for example between Europe, Africa and America

U

V

  • violence
  • virtue

interactive quizzes

evolution: a slow development with gradual changes

revolution: sudden change of a political system, property

riot: a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd