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History Final Vocab
1-25
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civilization | a form of culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institution, record keeping and advanced cities |
| Janissary | a member of an elite force of soldiers in the ottoman empire |
| Culture | a people's unique way of life, as shown by its tools, customs, arts, and ideas |
| Polytheism | a belief in many gods |
| Monotheism | a belief in a single god |
| Empire | a political unit in which a number of people or countries are controlled by a single ruler |
| Caste | One of the four classes of people in the social system of the Arayans who settled warriors, peasants, or traders, and non-Aryan crafts men |
| Homer | a great storyteller, homer composed epics, narratives, poems, celebrating heroic deeds, sometime between 750 and 700 B.C. |
| Polis | a Greek city-state-the fundemental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C. |
| Republic | a form of government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are electedby citizens who have the right to vote |
| Inflation | a decline in the value of money, and accompanied by a rise in the prices of goods and services |
| Civil service | the administrative departments of a government-especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examinations |
| Animism | the belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other objects |
| Hajj | pilgrimage to mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims |
| Justinian Code | Body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the byzantine emperor Justinian |
| Feudalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their lord in exchange for their loyalty, military service, protection of the people who live on the land |
| Hajj | pilgrimage to mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims |
| Justinian Code | Body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the byzantine emperor Justinian |
| Feudalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their lord in exchange for their loyalty, military service, protection of the people who live on the land |
| Manor | lords estate in feudal Europe |
| Chivalry | code of behavior for Knights in medieval Europe. Courage, loyalty, devotion |
| Guild | Medieval association of people working at the same occupation, controlled it member ex. wages |
| Commercial Revolution | expansion of trade and business tranformed european economies during the 16th and 17th century |
| Magna Carta | Document gaurenteed basis political rights in england, drawn up by nobles and approved by king john in A.D.1215 |
| Matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent are traced through the mother |
| Renaissance | the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th-16th centuries. |
| Utopia | An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect |
| Reformation | 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of christian churches rejected the popes authority |
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mbbeckstead
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