Vocabulary Flashcards

a condition or place of great disorder or confusion

conforming to the law or to rules

a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes

a military operation in which forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside

the original draft of a diplomatic document, especially of the terms of a treaty agreed to in conference and signed by the parties; official procedures or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions

of or relating to an empire

the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations

the position or authority of a prince or chief ruler

a state that is controlled and protected by another

the German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire