21 Terms
Contributors in World history
World history
tribute
History; World history
Etymology: Middle English tribut, from Latin tributum, from neuter of tributus, past participle of tribuere to allot, bestow, grant, pay, from tribus tribe. 1. a. a payment by one ruler or nation to ...
dictatorship
History; World history
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) 1 a State ruled by a dictator. 2 the position, rule, or period of rule of ...
colonialism
History; World history
The acquisition of foreign territory for settlement and exploitation. Following Spanish and Portuguese conquests in South America in the 15th and 16th centuries, most major European powers ...
Granada
History; World history
Region of southern Spain conquered by Muslims from north Africa in 711, and the last Spanish Islamic state to fall to the Reconquista under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1492.
Dalai Lama
History; World history
The traditional ruler of Tibet. The present Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 and fled from Tibet after the 1950 Chinese invasion. He returned but fled a second time in 1959, taking refuge ...
Chernobyl accident
History; World history
Explosion at a nuclear power plant near Kiev, Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. Meltdown of the core was narrowly avoided and a concrete cap used to seal the damaged reactor, but serious contamination of ...
domino effect
History; World history
Phrase used by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 to express the possibility that, if one country turned to communism, adjacent states would follow. The USA feared that South Vietnam's collapse would lead ...
