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Unit 8 part 1
Unit 8 part 1 week of 4/9
Question | Answer |
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Barbarian | A wild and uncivilized person. |
Centurion/Centuries | an officer in the ancient Roman army, which originally had one hundred men |
Collapse | Complete failure and ruin |
Conquer/Conquest | Taking control of a people or place through military force |
Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain |
Corruption | Dishonest or illegal actions |
Coup | the violent overthrow of a government by a small group |
Crusade | one of the expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims |
Decline | fall apart, grow worse |
Dynastic Cycle | The rise and fall of dynasties in China |
Invasion | an attack by an armed force to conquer another country |
Kamikaze | The "divine wind" credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion of Japan during the thirteenth century |