14682891139 | tribute | Goods given to rulers by subjects as a form of payment/taxes | 0 | |
14682891140 | matriarchy | Power inherited through female lines of authority (e.g. Iroquois Confederacy) | 1 | |
14682891141 | animism | Belief of spirits infused in the natural world (primary religion of Native Americans and also represented in African+European cultures) | 2 | |
14682891142 | patriarchy | Property and social identity descended in male lines of family (common European practice) | 3 | |
14682891143 | primogeniture | Fathers bestowed all land and property upon eldest son (common European practice that created poor peasants that would become immigrants) | 4 | |
14682891144 | peasants | Farmers living in villages surrounded by fields that were cooperatively farmed- families were very poor and centered their lives around a seasonal schedule for farming (much like Native Americans) | 5 | |
14682891145 | Republics | City-states governed by merchant coalitions ruled by moneyed elites (e.g. Italian city-states during the Renaissance) | 6 | |
14682891146 | Civic Humanism | Ideology praising virtue and service to the state | 7 | |
14682891147 | Guilds | Artisan organizations regulating trade | 8 | |
14682891148 | Renaissance | Arts and learning associated with 1300-1450 (influenced European, Asian, and African cultures during economic revolution) | 9 | |
14682891149 | Christianity | Religion that grew from Jewish monotheism that believes Jesus Christ is divine | 10 | |
14682891150 | Islam | Religion considering Muhammad to be God's last prophet | 11 | |
14682891151 | Crusades | Series of Christian Wars from A.D. 1096-1291 to reverse the spread of Islam and take back the Holy Lands where Christ had lived | 12 | |
14682891152 | predestination | Idea that God chooses souls for damnation or salvation before birth (John Calvin preached this in "Institutes of Christian Religion" (1536), which prompted the Protestant Reformation) | 13 | |
14682891153 | heresies | Doctrines inconsistent with the teachings of the Church | 14 | |
14682891154 | Protestant Reformation | Radical reformers (Luther&Calvin) started a war between Northern Principalities and the traditional Roman Catholic Church | 15 | |
14682891155 | Counter Reformation | Catholic Church sought change from within (due to the Protestant Reformation) creating new monastic and missionary orders (e.g. Jesuits) | 16 | |
14682891156 | Trans-Saharan Trade | Primary Avenue for West African trade before being connected to the Atlantic by European traders | 17 | |
14682891157 | Reconquista | spanish-Catholic campaign to expel Muslims from Europe and persecute any and all non-Catholic Christians, Muslims, and Jews | 18 |
AP US History Chapter 1 Flashcards
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