SLO Vocabulary Words

To tell or write about using details

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

A point of view shaped by beliefs and life experience

A person believed to be a messenger of God

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

Holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages

Type of government in which the people elect leaders

Cultural Diffusion

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

What is a kingdom?

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

The worship of or belief in only one god

What is culture?

What is a city-state?

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

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

Land regions controlled by one ruler

What is a Golden Age?

The worship of or belief in more than one God

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

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

What a person or society leaves behind

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

To examine or look at very closely

The business of buying and selling or exchanging items

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

A body of land surrounded by water on three sides

What is the Renaissance?

What is an aristocrat?

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