Summer Assignment Vocab Words

Question 1

Nomads

Answer 1

Member of a tribe that moves from place to place according to food supply

Question 2

Artisan

Answer 2

Person skilled in Applied art using traditional methods

Question 3

Polytheism

Answer 3

Belief in one or many gods

Question 4

Civilization

Answer 4

Culture of people and their development

Question 5

Barter

Answer 5

bargain unwisely or dishonestly

Question 6

isthmus

Answer 6

narrow strip of land

Question 7

sacred

Answer 7

devoted to religious purpose

Question 8

Civil Service

Answer 8

branches of public service

Question 9

Aristocrats

Answer 9

anything known as “the best”

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

government ruled by the people

Question 11

Civil War

Answer 11

war btw political factions within the same country

Question 12

Culture

Answer 12

stage of civilization

Question 13

Peninsula

Answer 13

are of land surrounded by water on three sides

Question 14

Republic

Answer 14

Supreme power rest in the body of citizens, exercised by representatives chosen directly by them

Question 15

Orater

Answer 15

law brought to a case equity

Question 16

Exile

Answer 16

State of being barred from ones country because of political reasons

Question 17

Excommunication

Answer 17

Excluded from a group

Question 18

Heresy

Answer 18

belief in a theory or story

Question 19

Gentile

Answer 19

relation to anyone not Jewish

Question 20

Pope

Answer 20

Similar to bishop or Roman Catholic Pope

Question 21

Schism

Answer 21

Formal division from a body over doctrinal differences

Question 22

Economics

Answer 22

Science dealing with production distribution and consumption of goods and services

Question 23

Feudalism

Answer 23

Practices of political relations

Question 24

Nobility

Answer 24

Exalting moral excellence

Question 25

Peasant

Answer 25

Uneducated person of little financial means

Question 26

Secular

Answer 26

Not belonging to a religion

Question 27

Pilgrimage

Answer 27

Long journey taken on by a purpose

Question 28

Shrine

Answer 28

Holy enclosed structure

Question 29

Legacy

Answer 29

Something handed down from an ancestor

Question 30

Martyr

Answer 30

Person put to death because of their religion

Question 31

Plague

Answer 31

Disease caused by bacteria transmitted to humans from animals

Question 32

Humanism

Answer 32

Study or theory that emphasizes human fulfillment, rejects belief in God

Question 33

Patron

Answer 33

Supporter with money, gifts,efforts, time, or writers, artist, causes

Question 34

vernacular

Answer 34

Using of native language

Question 35

Sacrament

Answer 35

A symbol of sacrament to ones religion