1-20 vt terms Flashcards
The characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
Thus it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group.
Culture
An organized unit of people living in subsystems of a greater system.
It’s a complex human society, usually made up of different cities, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development.
Civilization
An organized, if not codified system of belief, typically involving a deity or deities
Religion
Social system typified by strata, levels of society based upon wealth, status, title, and education
Caste system
The period of European history extending from about 500 to 1400-1500 CE
This term was first by 15th century scholars to designate the period between their own time and the fall of the Western Roman Empire
The Middle Ages
These are often agrarian, smallish civilizations that lack most modern technologies
Often such groups have direct indigenous roots and ancient cultural practices, often including social and religious traditions
A traditional civilization
Refers to those practices that relate to the industrial mode of production or the development of large-scale often colonial societies
A modern society
A belief in one God
Monotheism
A belief in many Gods
Polytheism
The time of the great explorers who were charting unknown parts of the world and attempting to find faster passages to exotic and potentially lucrative places.
Marco Polo started in the early 1300s and Portugal, Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Dutch participated through the mid to later 1700s.
Age of Exploration
The practice (and mindset) of occupying a given place, assuming power, installing your own culture, and then extracting resources and requiring fealty
Colonization/ colonialism
An enduring and far reaching kingdom, typified by great wealth, influence, and military power
Dynasty
Central rule, typically one monarch with a royal family, a dominant form of government up through the early 1800s
Ex. Britain, Russia, France
Monarchy
An economic system (has strong political attributes) that allows for individual ownership of firms (businesses) and the means of production
Capitalism
(Command economy) the people (actually in all practicality’s the government) owns the means of production
Modern nations like China, Cuba, and Russia are modern communist states (few human liberties, very large taxes, often not so great living conditions)
Communism
