Section 2: History & Government Flashcards
City-State
Each city-state was independent, but was linked to other city-states by Greek language and culture.
Middle Ages
The period between ancient and modern times.
Feudalism
A system in which monarchs or lords gave land to nobles in return for pledges of loyalty, replaced centralized goverment.
Crusades
A series of brutal religous wars to win palestine, the birthplace of Christianity, from Muslim rule.
Renaissance
A 300 -year period of discovery and learning, brought about great advances in European civilization.
Reformation
The revolt and separation from the Catholic Church forming Protestanism.
Enlightenment
During the late 1600s and early 1700s, many educated Europeans emphasized the importance of reason and began to question long-standing traditions and values.
Industrial Captipalism
An economic system in which business leaders used profits to expand their companies.
Communism
A philosophy that called for a society based on economic equality in which the worker would control the factories and industrial production.
Reparations
Payment for damages.
Holocaust
The mass killing of more than 6 million European Jews and others by Germany’s Nazi leaders.
Cold War
A power struggle between the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, and the noncommunist world, led by the United States.
European Union
An organization whose goal was a united Europe in which goods, services, and workers could move freely among member countries.