The First Colonies

Question 1

autocratic

Answer 1

a system that gives one person unlimited power

Question 2

cannibalism

Answer 2

when a person eats flesh from another human being

Question 3

despotic

Answer 3

having a ruler who exercises absolute power abusivly appressively or tyrannicly

Question 4

dissident

Answer 4

a person who disagrees in opinion

Question 5

hierarchy

Answer 5

an organization of persons or things arranged into higher and lower ranks,classes or grades

Question 6

indenture

Answer 6

to blind by contract in which a person is required to serve or for someone else

Question 7

minority

Answer 7

a group within a country, state or other area that is different from the larger part of the population in some way, such as race, or religion

Question 8

reprisal

Answer 8

aninjury done in return for an injury, especially by one nation or to their land. but were sold and inherited with the land

Question 9

serf

Answer 9

a peasant in the medieval age who was almost a slave serfs could not be sold off of

Question 10

strategic

Answer 10

useful in the planning and direction of military operations

Question 11

tenuous

Answer 11

thin or slight; not substanial