Tham khảo tài liệu 'vocabulary history and geography words_02', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY WORDS GLOSSARY UNIT 2- Lesson 1 A glossary is an alphabetical list of unusual or specialized words from a certain field of knowledge. Following are some important words relating to history and geography. alliance nations joined together usually by a treaty for certain purposes city-state a city that governs itself as an independent political state conquistador an early Spanish conqueror of Mexico and Peru depression a period of time when business is very poor and many people lose their jobs drought a long period of dry weather with little or no rain equator an imaginary circle around the middle of the Earth the equator is equally distant from the North and South Poles federal having to do with the national government globe a round model of the Earth showing the continents oceans and other important features hero person admired for having done something brave or noble infantry military troops trained and armed for fighting foot soldiers latitude distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees memorial anything such as a statue or holiday meant to honor and remind people of something or someone plain a large stretch of flat land treaty an agreement of cooperation among nations tropics a mostly warm region of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn between about 23 1 2 north and 231 2 south valley low land lying among or between hills or mountains veteran person who has served in the armed forces volcanic containing molten rock and having a likelihood of erupting 31 VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT Complete each sentence with a word from the glossary. Use the other words in the sentence to help you decide which word to add. If you re still not sure check the dictionary definition. 1. Cortez was a who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico. 2. Blazing temperatures and a lack of rain led to the worst __in America s history. 3. The of England France and the United States was a powerful force during World .
