Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ch.1 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| demanded from subject peoples (comparable to taxes in Europe), brought gold, textiles, turquoise, obsidian, tropical bird feathers, and cacao to Tenochtitlan. | Tribute |
| societies, with power inherited through female lines of authority. | Matriarchy |
| who believed-that the- natural-world was suffused with spiritual power. | Animism |
| in which property and social identity descended in male family lines. | Patriarchy |
| In many regions, fathers bestowed all their land on their eldest son - a practice known as _______________ - forcing many younger children to join the ranks of the roaming poor. Few men and even fewer women had much personal freedom. | Primogeniture |
| farmworkers who lived in small villages surrounded by fields farmed cooperatively by different families. | Peasants |
| states that had no prince or king but instead were governed by merchant coalitions. | Republic |
| an ideology that praised public virtue and service to the state and in time profoundly influenced European and American conceptions of government. | Civic Humanism |
| Historians have labeled the arts and learning associated with this cultural transformation from 1300 to 1450 the | Renaissance |
| Monarchs allowed merchants to trade throughout their realms; granted privileges to __________, or artisan organizations that regulated trades; and safeguarded commercial transactions, thereby encouraging domestic manufacturing and foreign trade. | Guilds |
| which grew out of Jewish monotheism (the belief in one god), held that Jesus Christ was himself divine. | Christianity |
| doctrines that were inconsistent with the teachings of the Church -were seen as the tools of Satan, and suppressing false doctrines became an obligation of Christian rulers. | Heresy |
| the religion whose followers considered Muhammad to be God's last prophet. | Islam |
| Between A.D. 1096 and 1291, Christian armies undertook a series of _________ to reverse the Muslim advance in Europe and win back the holy lands where Christ had lived. | Crusades |
| the idea that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born and condemns the rest to eternal damnation. | Predestination |
| Luther's criticisms triggered a war between the Holy Roman Empire and the northern principalities in Germany, and soon the controversy between the Roman Catholic Church and radical reformers like Luther & C spread throughout much of Western Europe. | Protestant Reformation |
| in the Catholic Church that sought change from within and created new monastic and missionary orders, including the Jesuits (founded in 1540), who saw themselves as soldiers of Christ. | Counter Reformation |
| For centuries, the primary avenue of trade for ,vest Africans passed through the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires, whose power was based on the monopoly they enjoyed over the | Trans-Saharan Trade |
| The campaign by Spanish Catholics to drive Muslim Arabs from the European mainland, by capturing Granada, the last Islamic territory in Western Europe, in 1492. | Reconquista |
Created by:
astei
Popular U.S. History sets