SLO Vocabulary Words

A body of land surrounded by water on three sides

What is a city-state?

What is culture?

What a person or society leaves behind

Cultural Diffusion

Second-hand accounts of an event or time period (textbooks, biographies)

To show similarities and differences between 2 or more people, places, and things

To examine or look at very closely

To overtake people and their land/possession by force during war

What is the Renaissance?

The organized way in which a society deals with how people produce & consume goods and services

What is an aristocrat?

The business of buying and selling or exchanging items

A type of government in which citizens participate in running the government & making decisions

A point of view shaped by beliefs and life experience

To tell or write about using details

The worship of or belief in more than one God

Type of government in which the people elect leaders

Holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages

What is a kingdom?

Type of government ruled by a king or queen which is inherited

What is a Golden Age?

The worship of or belief in only one god

First person accounts by someone who actually saw or lived trough an event or time period

A person believed to be a messenger of God

An advanced society that has arts, sciences, government, and a social structure

A thinker who seeks wisdom and answers to life's questions

Land regions controlled by one ruler

Political system during Middle Ages based on duty & loyalty between different social classes

A settlement in a distant land that keeps close ties to its homeland