Basic Geography C

Question 1

caliph

Answer 1

Muslim’s political and religious leader

Question 2

calligraphy

Answer 2

artistic lettering

Question 3

capital

Answer 3

money or goods that are used to make

Question 4

caravan

Answer 4

group of people traveling together

Question 5

caravel

Answer 5

a small, light ship developed by the Portuguese that performed well on long voyages

Question 6

cardinal directions

Answer 6

north, east, south, and west

Question 7

cartography

Answer 7

the science of making maps and globes

Question 8

caste system

Answer 8

system that divides society into groups

Question 9

Catholic Reformation

Answer 9

changes made by the Catholic Church to keep Catholicism strong; response to the reformation

Question 10

censor

Answer 10

to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable

Question 11

chronology

Answer 11

list of events arranged in the order in which thy occurred

Question 12

citizen

Answer 12

legal member of a country

Question 13

city-state

Answer 13

independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

Question 14

civic life

Answer 14

activities having to do with one’s society and community

Question 15

civic participation

Answer 15

taking part in government

Question 16

civilization

Answer 16

culture with a written language in which people have many different kinds of jobs

Question 17

cleric

Answer 17

religious leader

Question 18

climate

Answer 18

average weather of a place over many years

Question 19

climate change

Answer 19

long-term significant change to a region’s average weather

Question 20

Cold War

Answer 20

post- World War II period of hostility between the United States and its allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other side

Question 21

collectivization

Answer 21

control shift to a group, or collective, from an individual or single entity

Question 22

colonialism

Answer 22

policy by which one country seeks to rule other areas

Question 23

colonization

Answer 23

movement of new settlers and their culture to an area

Question 24

command economy

Answer 24

economy in which the central government makes all basic economic decisions

Question 25

communism

Answer 25

political and economic system in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions