History vocabulary

ally - spojenec, stoupenec

noun - somebody who supports and helps you, especially in a war etc.

ancestor - předek (předchůdce)

noun - a forefather, a person in the family who lived a very long time before

conquer - dobýt

verb - to defeat an army in a war and take control of the country

conquest - dobytí, porážka

noun - the act of taking control over a country by force

contract - smlouva

noun - a written legal agreement

crown - korunovat

verb - to make somebody king or queen

defeat - porazit (v boji)

verb - to win over somebody in a fight

defence - obrana

noun - protection against an attack etc.

descendant - potomek

noun - a person related to someone who lived before them, e.g. a child, grandchild etc.

dismiss - rozpustit

verb - to end a meeting etc.

execute - popravit

verb - to kill somebody as a legal punishment

gather - shromáždit, shromáždit se, posbírat, sesbírat

verb - to come together, to pick things and put them in one place

governor - guvernér, správce, místodržitel

noun - a person who is in charge of a region or a state

heir - dědic

noun - a person who gets things from somebody who has died

heredity - dědičnost

noun - the process in which genetic characteristics are transmitted from the parents to the children

heretic - kacíř

noun - a person whose opinions and beliefs contradict a particular religion

invade - napadnout, vpadnout

verb - to enter a territory or country by force

offspring - dítě, ratolest, potomek, děti, ratolesti, potomci

noun - someone's child or children

peace - mír

noun - the time when there is no war or fighting

posterity - potomstvo, příští generace

noun, formal - the future generations

reign - vládnout, panovat

verb - to be king or queen somewhere

rule - vládnout

verb - to have the power over a country, people etc. and use it

settlement - osada

noun - a place (e.g. a village) built in a place where nobody or not many people lived before

substitute - nahradit, zaměnit

verb - to put something in place of something else

succeed - být nástupcem, nastoupit (po někom)

verb - to take a post or position after somebody else

suffer - trpět, vytrpět

verb - to go through pain or difficulty

support - podepírat, podepřít, unést (váhu)

verb - to hold something from below so that it doesn't fall or collapse, to be able to hold the weight of something

treason - velezrada, vlastizrada

noun - a crime of harming one's own country

treaty - smlouva, dohoda, pakt, ujednání

noun - an agreement between countries that is signed by their leaders

victory - vítězství

noun - a success in winning in something