history chapter 1 Flashcards
A place or region newly settled
Settlement
People sharing a language, territory, and economy
Civilization
A political unit that controls a city and its surrounding land
city-State
A system of rule by Lords who ruled their own lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch
feudalism
The series of wars fought by christians
Crusades
A network of overland trade routes linking China to the middle East
Silk Road
The burst of learning in Europe from the late 1300 to about 1600
renaissance
A area settled and ruled by the government from a distant land
colony
A entire way of life developed by a people
Culture
A region in which people share a similar way of life
Culture-region
A committee of people
Tribe
A alliance of the Iroquois region
Iroquois League
Sail completely around the world
Circumnavigate
culater exange
Columbian exange