Revolutions Vocab

an authoritarian governing system in which a hereditary ruler holds complete power until death

• aristocracy

• absolute monarchy

• democracy

• popular sovereignty

the set of basic laws and principles by which a nation, state, or other organization is governed

• Ideology

• ethnic nationalism

• sovereignty

• constitution

a people living in the same geographic region and having a common history, language, and culture

• nation

• radical

• nation-state

• patriarchal

a period of significant change that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as new scientific discoveries and innovations transformed history

• democracy

• The Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• ethnic nationalism

the middle class

• aristocracy

• bourgeoisie

• liberal

• conservative

the quality or state of being independent; freedom from outside control

• democracy

• sovereignty

• revolution

• independence

a person who advocates fundamental or extreme social and political changes

• conservative

• radical

• liberal

• citizen

an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market

• aristocracy

• capitalism

• nationalism

• sovereignty

relating to a social system in which a father rules, and descent and succession are traced through the father

• patriarchal

• absolute monarchy

• aristocracy

• nation-state

a massive upheaval in ideas or ways of doing something, or the wide scale change or transformation that occurs because of it

• sovereignty

• revolution

• independence

• autonomy