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/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
    an period of time, eg the Dark Age
  • age of enlightenment
  • aristocracy
  • assembly
    • a meeting of people in one place for a purpose

B

  • borgeoisie (eng. middle class)

C

  • capitalism
  • confederation
  • conservative, conservation

D

  • democracy

E

  • estates
  • evolution
    • a slow development with gradual changes

H

  • human rights

L

  • labour
  • liberal, liberalsim

M

  • monarchy

  N

  • nation, national

P

  • parliament

R

  • reaction
  • restoration
  •   revolution
    sudden change of a political system, property

S

  • separation of powers 

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