| Term | Definition |
|---|
| refugee | a person who is forced to flee to another country to escape wars |
| population density | the average number of people livng in a square mile |
| emigrate | to leave ones country of birth |
| birth rate | number of children born in each year for every 1000 people |
| famine | severe lack of food |
| death rate | the number of deaths per year for every 1000 people |
| urbanization | the growth of cities |
| ethinic group | a group that shares language, history and religion |
| dialect | a local language having a distinct vocabulary and pronunciation |
| monarchy | a government lead by a king or queen who inherits power |
| culture | the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs |
| globalization | the development of a world wide culture with an interdependent economy |
| culture diffusion | the process of spreading ideas, languages or customs from other cultures to another |
| democracy | a form of government in which power is held by the people |
| dictatorship | a form of government in which the leader rules by force |
| clovis | a military leader who was fighting the Franks thought he was going to lose and prayed to the christian god for help and the war turned around. He beliieved that it was because of the christian faith. He converted himeself along with 3000 men of his army to christianity |
| Benedict | wrote a book of rules for monasteries to follow |
| Pope Gergory I | He increased the power of the popes office, introdueced the idea of secular and worldly, helped the poor repaired roads |
| Charles Martel | Fought in the Battle of Tours and defeated the muslims, stopped the invasion of the islam religion |
| Charlemagne | Reunited Western Europe, set up learning cneters, promoted education. Crowned emporer by the POpe. |
| civilization | highly developed culture |
| landlocked | having no border with ocean or sea |
| navigable | referring to a body of water wide and deep enough for ships to use |
| deciduous | trees which lose their leaves in the fall |
| coniferous | evergreens, that have their seeds in cones. They grow in cooler areas of the marine west coast climate zone |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | member of royal family in Portugal, founded the first navigation school, spent years planning trips to the tip if Africa, used slaves on ships |
| Partolomeu Dias | Made it AROUND the tip if Africa |
| Vasco Da Gama | sailed around Africa to Calicut, India. Called the admiral of India |
| Queen isabella | Funded Columbus' explorations and united all of Spain |
| Christopher Columbus | Sailed west and landed in the Bahamas |
| Ferdinand Magellan | attempted to sail around the world but died in the Phillippines |
| Galileo | He proved that all falling objects travel at the same rate regardless of the weight and established the foundations of the study of physics |
| Copernicus | discovered the earth was NOT the centerof everything and the earth and planets revolve around the sun |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | given the title 'Renaissance Man" painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper |
| Kepler | discovered that the planets move in an elliptical or oval motion |
| Vesalius | published the fist textbook on Human Anatomy |
| Brunelleschi | used the rules of math and perspective design (3d design) to create great cathdral domes |
| Gutenburg | invented the printing press |
| black plague | a disease caused by rats and fleas in Europe |
| Machiavelli | said. "It is much saferto be feared then loved", wrote the Prince |
| Petrarch | the "Father of Humanism" and introduced the concept of emotion in his "Sonnets to Laura" |
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