- Aqueduct: A human-made channel built to transport water from one place to another.
- Bear Flag Revolt: A brief attempt at the start of the Mexican-American War to create an independent
California republic.
- Bushido: The code of conduct for knights in feudal Japan, similar to chivalry in Europe.
- California's Mission System: A "sacred expedition" that established twenty-one Spanish Catholic
missions, each spaced a day's travel apart along El Camino Real (the Royal Road).
- Californios: Residents of the rancho system in California just before the Mexican-American War,
primarily Mexican citizens who identified more as Californios than Mexicans.
- Capitalism: An economic system regulated by the state that promotes the accumulation of wealth and
property by individuals.
, Caste ✔️a division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, or
occupation
Central Valley Project (CVP) ✔️a federal water project undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation in
1935 as a long-term plan to effectively use water in California's Central Valley
Checks and Balances ✔️written into the Constitution, this concept is one of the cornerstones of our
republic, encompassing three branches of government and a system for them to act as watchdogs for
the others
Circumnavigate ✔️to sail completely around the Earth
Code of Hammurabi ✔️the first known written legal code, developed in ancient Babylon, predated the
Justinian Code by about 2000 years