Period 2 Vocab 3

Question 1

Religious syncretism

Answer 1

The combining of different religious beliefs and practices, forming a new religion

Example: The blending of traditional African religions with Christianity in the Caribbean.

Question 2

Maroon society

Answer 2

A group of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants who gained their freedom by fleeing enslavement and running to remote mountains or dense forests and establishing communities or integrating into communities of native populations.

Example: The Maroons in Jamaica formed their own self-sufficient communities in the mountains.

Question 3

Casta System

Answer 3

A social class system based on race developed by the Spanish in the Americas. It established a fixed social class that a person is born into that was used to classify all of the races in America

Example: The Casta System categorized people based on their racial heritage.

Question 4

Serfdom

Answer 4

The status of peasants under manorialism where serfs were enslaved and tied to the land they worked on for life, unable to leave without the noble’s permission.

Example: Serfs in medieval Europe were bound to the land and had to provide labor for the lord.