Social Studies Midterm
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 history | is the study of the past. |
| culture | the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people |
| archaeology | the study of the past based on what people left behind. |
| fossil | is a part or imprinted of something that was once alive. |
| artifacts | objects created by and used by humans. |
| primary source | is an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event. |
| seconday source | is information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event. |
| Geography | the stdudy of the earth's physical and cultural features. |
| landforms | the natural features of the land's surfaced. |
| climate | pattern of weather conditions in a certain area over a long period of time. |
| environment | includes all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area |
| region | an area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas. |
| resources | materials found in the earth that people need and value |
| prehistory | historians call the time before there was writing |
| hominid | an early ancestor of humans |
| ancestor | is a relative who lived in the past |
| tool | is any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
| paleolithic | the first part of the Stone Age |
| era | Old Stone Age |
| society | is a community of people who share a common culture. |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds,fruits, and nuts to survive |
| migrate | move |
| ice age | freezing time |
| land bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents. |
| Mesolithic Era | Middle Stone Age. |
| Neolithic Era | New Stone Age. |
| domestication | process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.` |
| agriculture | farming |
| megaliths | are huge stones used as monuments |
| eurasia | large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia |
| Topography | refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region |
| middle ages | a period that lasted from about 500 to about 1500 |
| medieval | period |
| monks | were religions men who lived apart from society in isolated communities |
| monoasteries | communities of monks |
| knights | warriors who fought on horseback |
| vassal | a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land |
| feudalism | historians call this system of promises that governed that governed the relationships between lords and vassals |
| manor | large estate owned by a knight or lord |
| serfs | workers who were tied to the landon which they lived |
| chivalry | europeans called therir code of honorable behavior for knights |
| haiku | short, three-line poems of 17 syllables that describes nature scenes |
| excommunicate | cast out from the church |
| crusades | were a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia. |
| Holy Land | because it ws ther region where Jeses has lived, preached, and died |
| clergy | church officials |
| religious order | a group of people who dedicate their lives to religion and follow common rules |
| friars | people who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked among the general public |
| natural law | a law that governed how the world orerated |
| Magna Carta | the document listing rights that the king could not ignore |
| Huntered years war | long conflicrt between England and France |
| black death | deadly plague that swept throught Euroupe between 1347 and 1351 |
| heresy | religious idea that oppose accepted church teachngs |
| reconquista | eforts to retake Spain from the Moors |
| Spanish Isquistition | an organizATON OF PRIESTS THAT LOOKED FOR AND PUNISHED ANYONE IN SPAN SUSPECTED OF SECRETLY PRACTICING THEIR OLD RELIGION |
| renaissance | means "rebirth" and refers to the period that followed Europe's Middle Ages |
| humanism | a way of thinking and learning that stresse the importance of human abilities and actions |
| Christian humanism | a blend of humanist and religous ideas |
| reformation | a reform movement againsrt the Roman Chatholic Church` |
| Jesuits | were a religious order created to serve the pope and the churce |
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