All definitions

Question 1

What is the definition of Colonise?

Answer 1

To settle in, and take control of,an area from one’s home, territory.

Question 2

What is the definition of Capital?

Answer 2

Wealth in the form of money or other asserts that are available for investing.

Question 3

What is the definition of boycott?

Answer 3

To intentionally abstain from an activity, from using or buying a product,or from interacting with a person group state or country usually for moral social or political reasons.

Question 4

What is the definition of communism?

Answer 4

when a nation is run by an authoritarian government featuring a planned economy with an equally shared resources.

Question 5

What is the definition of Conscription?

Answer 5

It is a system where eligible people (usually young men) are forced to enter the army for a certain period.

Question 6

What is the definition of Conscripts?

Answer 6

It is people who are conscripted into a military force.

Question 7

What is the definition of Constitution?

Answer 7

It is the basic law and principles of a nation or state.

Question 8

What is the definition of armistice?

Answer 8

An agreement to lay down arms and stop fighting.

Question 9

What is the definition of artillery?

Answer 9

Lage weapons capable of launching heavy munitions ,uch further than traditional guns.

Question 10

What is the definition of assimilation?

Answer 10

replacing the language of and culture of a non-dominant social group with those of the dominant social group.

Question 11

What is the definition of emancipist?

Answer 11

A former convict who hap completed their sentence or been granted pardon.

Question 12

What is the definition of Enclosure?

Answer 12

Where land was divided into farms by fences or hedges.

Question 13

What is thee definition of entente?

Answer 13

A French term meaning ‘friendly understandment’

Question 14

What is the definition of ‘Fixed rate’.

Answer 14

Interest rate on a loan where the rate does not increase or decrease during the fixed rate period of the loan.

Question 15

What is the definition of a Foxhole?

Answer 15

A hole in the ground used by soldiers to provide cover from gunfire.

Question 16

What is the definition of genocide?

Answer 16

The deliberate killing of a large group of people because of the nationality or ethnic group.

Question 17

What is the definition of globalisation?

Answer 17

When a businesses and organisations interact and integrate with businesses organisations and people worldwide.

Question 18

What is the definition of handicraft?

Answer 18

objects that are made by hand.

Question 19

what is the definition of home front?

Answer 19

The civilian population and daily activities of a nation whose armed forces are fighting overseas.

Question 20

What is the definition of imperialism?

Answer 20

The policy or ideology of extending a country’s power and influence usually through colonisation or military force.

Question 21

What is the definition of industrialise?

Answer 21

To introduce industry to an area; to use machinery to do things previously done by hand.

Question 22

What is the definition of manufacturing?

Answer 22

The making of products use or sale using labour and/or machinery.

Question 23

What is the definition of merchant?

Answer 23

A person or company involved in wholesale.

Question 24

what is the definition of mercantilism?

Answer 24

A system of profitable trading based on the idea that increasing exports would increase a nation’s power.

Question 25

What is the definition of microhistory?

Answer 25

A genre of history centred on small and focused research such as interviewing an individual to gain a perspective on the big picture.

Question 26

What is the definition of militarism?

Answer 26

the idea that a country should maintain a strong army to defend or promote its national interests.

Question 27

What is the definition of Nationalism/Nationalist?

Answer 27

Extreme loyalty to your nation-state its people and culture and involves promoting these interests ahead of others nations.

Question 28

What id the definition of paddle steamer?

Answer 28

A boat powered by a steam engine that turns larges paddle wheels.

Question 29

What is the definition of revolution?

Answer 29

a radical change to an established system or process.

Question 30

What is the definition of socialism?

Answer 30

a political and economic system in which communities control businesses and industry for the benefit of their members.

Question 31

What is the definition of socialist?

Answer 31

Someone who advocates for or believes in socialism.

Question 32

What is the definition of Subversive?

Answer 32

something that is intended to reverse the principals morals or norms of a current system or system of thought.

Question 33

What is the definition of of suffrage?

Answer 33

the right to vote in political elections.

Question 34

What is the definition of suffragette?

Answer 34

Women who participate in direct or even violent protest to demand voting right.

Question 35

What is the definition of suffragists?

Answer 35

Women who advocated for the right to vote rather than engaging in direct protest.

Question 36

What is the definition of trade union?

Answer 36

An organisation that protects and promotes the rights of a specific group of workers.

Question 37

What is the definition of trench?

Answer 37

a narrow excavation that is generally deeper that it is wide; during ww1 multi[le trenches were often connected in zigzag patterns and were used extensively to provide cover and shelter from gunfire.

Question 38

What is the definition of urbanisation?

Answer 38

A process where an increasing number of people relocate to cities from the countryside in search of work.