4.1 - 5.6 social studies terms Flashcards
A human made object, such as a tool, weapon or a piece of jewelry.
Artifact
A member of a nomadic group who’s food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods.
Hunter-gatherer
A major change in human life cause by the beginnings of farming that is, by peoples shift from food gathering to food producing.
Neolithic revolution
A farming method in which people clear fields by cutting and burning trees and grasses, the ashes of which swerve to fertilize the soil.
Slash and burn
The taming of animals for human use.
Domestication
An agricultural village in south-central turkey, discovered in 1858, which peaked around 8,000 years ago. At this time it was home to around 5,000 and 6,000 people, making it one of the largest permanent settlements of the er.
Catal Huyuk
A renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement.
Humanism
A member or a protestant church founded on the teachings of martin Luther.
Lutheran
To be kicked out of a church
excommunicated
A member of a group that has no permanent home, wandering from place to place in search of food and water.
Nomad
A body of officials who perform religious services, such as priests, ministers, or rabbis.
Clergy
One of the christian ceremonies in which God’s grace is transmitted to people.
Sacrament
the body of laws governing the religious practices of a christian church.
Canon law
The appointment of religious officials by kings or nobles.
Lay investiture
A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning and views of the world.
Renaissance
Worldly rather than spiritual, and concerned with the here and now; a worldview especially prevalent during the renaissance.
Secular
The everyday language of people in a region or country.
Vernacular
A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500’s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
Scientific revolution
A peoples unique way of life, as shown by its tools, customs, arts and ideas.
culture
a member of a biological group including human beings and related species that walk upright.
Hominid
a member of a christian church founded on the principles of reformation.
Protestant
a person who supports artists, especially financially.
patron
A movement for religious reform in the 1500’s leading to the founding of christian churches that that rejected the popes authority.
Reformation
to cancel or set aside
annul
a form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money.
Barter
A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin
Indulgence
