chapter 10 land and history Flashcards
Philosopher
A person that thinks about and studies the world
Fjord (fee-ord)
Is a long, narrow,deep inlet of the sea that is located between steep cliffs
Guild
A guild is an association of tradespeople and craftspeople
formed to protects workers’ rights
Empire
Is a nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader, or emperor as emperor, Octavian took the name Augustus
Peninsula
Land surrounded by water on three sides
Oligarchy
A system in which wealthy individuals rule
Plain
A large flat area of land that usually does not have many trees.
Patrician
A member of a wealthy , landowning family that roots
back to Rome
city-state
A central city and its surrounding villages, which together
follow the same law , have one language, have one form of government, and share beliefs, and ways of life
polis
the central city of a city-state
republic
a form of government in which people rule through elected representatives
medieval
relating to the period of history between the fall of the roman empire and the beginning of the modern world often dated from 476 to 1453.
Plebeian
ordinary citizen in ancient Rome
Feudalism
In medieval Europe, a political and economic
system in which lords gave land to less powerful nobles ,
called vassals, in return for which the vassals agreed to provide various services to the lords
manorialism
A social system in which peasants worked on a lords land and supplied him with food in exchange for his protection of them
