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| In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the principal city or town associated with a country's government |
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| In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. |
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| An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, and so on). |
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| In politics, Congress ("a gathering of people") is the name of the main legislative body in a state that operates under a congressional system of government. |
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The members or legislators of a senate are called senators
A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature |
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| Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. |
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| immigration in the modern sense refers to movement of people from one nation-state to another, where they are not citizens. Immigration implies long-term permanent residence by the immigrants: tourists and short-term visitors are not considered immigrants. |
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| A governor is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the Head of state |
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| A plantation is an intentional planting of a crop, on a larger scale, usually for uses other than cereal production or pasture. |
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| A historian is someone who writes history, and history is a written accounting of the past. |
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