World Cultures Era 4&5 Vocabulary

Question 1

Antiquity

Answer 1

ancient times

Question 2

Autonomous

Answer 2

free and independent

Question 3

Bureaucrat

Answer 3

an official in a government office

Question 4

Crusades

Answer 4

any of the several attempts of medieval European Christians to recover and then defend the Holy Land in and around Jerusalem from the Muslims

Question 5

Diffusion

Answer 5

spreading/scattering

Question 6

Feudalism

Answer 6

a system of economic and political organization, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, in which one person would pledge to support another person

Question 7

Monsoon Marketplace

Answer 7

Indian Ocean trade routes that connected people, goods, and ideas

Question 8

Patronage

Answer 8

supporter of the arts

Question 9

Capital

Answer 9

money used by a business

Question 10

Capitalism

Answer 10

an economic system in which the means of production & distribution are privately owned and prices are chiefly determined by supply and demand

Question 11

Colonization

Answer 11

taking over territories

Question 12

Conquistador

Answer 12

Spanish conquerors

Question 13

Famine

Answer 13

extreme shortage of food

Question 14

Free Market

Answer 14

prices are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, pricing products in competition to rival companies

Question 15

Monopoly

Answer 15

complete control over a service, so the competition is eliminated

Question 16

Sovereign

Answer 16

having the power of self-government, as a state or country

Question 17

Subjugate

Answer 17

control over somewhere by a military conquest

Question 18

Mercantilism

Answer 18

the doctrine, that a
nation’s economy could be strengthened by governmental protection of
home industries, by increased foreign exports, and by accumulating gold
and silver