history chapter 1 Flashcards
a place or region newly settled
settlement
a society or a people sharing a language, territory, and economy that has certain basic features
Civilization
a political unit that controls a city and its surrounding land
city-state
a system of rule by lords who ruled their own lands but owned loyalty and military service to a monarch
feudalism
between 1100 and 1300, the series of wars were fought by Christians to control Palestine, or the Holy land
crusades
a network of overland trade routes linking to China to the Middle East
silk road
the burst of learning in Europe from the late 1300’s to about 1600
Renaissance
an entire way of life developed by a people
culture
a region in which people share a similar way of life
cultural-region
a community of people that share common customs, languages, and rituals
tribe
the alliance of the Iroquois nations
Iroquois league
an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land
colony
to travel all the way around the earth
circumnavigate
the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemisphere
Columbian Exchange
