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| 148756929 | gentry | people of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility | 0 | |
| 148756930 | Muhammed | Who: Prophet, teacher, founder of Islam What: Lived a normal life for forty years, and then retreated to a cave wherein the angle Gabriel told him all about Allah, the one true god, and the upcoming Day of Judgment. Gabriel also told him Allah's final instructions which were compiled into the Koran. After several years, Muhammad got the courage up to preach about his visions in the street. However, he was soon forced to flee to Medina by merchants and religious leaders who were losing business because he was causing people to rethink their ways. In Medina he gradually formed an army, and went back to take Mecca by force. He then became the leader of the Umma, or Muslim community. When: Born in 570, died in 632 Where: Mecca and Medina in Arabia Why: Founded a brand new religion, Islam, that is now the second most followed religion in the world. | 1 | |
| 148756931 | Feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service |  | 2 |
| 148756932 | nationalism | a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |  | 3 |
| 148756933 | Utopian Socialism | Philosophy introduced by the Frenchman Charles Fourier in the early nineteenth century. Utopian socialists hoped to create humane alternatives to industrial capitalism by building self-sustaining communities whose inhabitants would work cooperatively (616 | 4 | |
| 148756934 | Industrial Revolution | the rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power-driven machinery |  | 5 |
| 148756935 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons. (p. 397) |  | 6 |
| 148756936 | gunpowder | The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits. In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and to propel cannonballs, shot, and bullets. (p. 289) |  | 7 |
| 148756937 | deforestation | The process of clearing the land of forests, often to make space for farms and cities. |  | 8 |
| 148756938 | Catholic Church | glued together during Middle Ages; Center of life and learning during Middle Ages;Made laws,set up courts,collected taxes; Maintained Hospitals,schools,orphanages,and poorhouses |  | 9 |
| 154231920 | enlightenment | An intellectual movement concentrated in France during the 1700's developed rational laws to describe social behavior and applied their findings in support of human rights and liberal economic theories. |  | 10 |
| 154231921 | Maximilian Robespierre | leader of the French Revolution; influential member of the committee of Public Safety; instrumental in the reign of terror that ended with his execution; preached democracy and suffrage; Mountain; |  | 11 |
| 154231922 | mechanization | the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology |  | 12 |
| 154231923 | telegraph | _______is the use of short precise sentence to communicate., a message sent over distance by coded signals, commonly used for very important messages before telephones were reliable, apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code) |  | 13 |
| 154231924 | mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | 14 | |
| 154231925 | socialism | the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals, a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. | 15 | |
| 154231926 | steam engines | a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid; factories to be sited away from rivers, and further accelerated the pace of the Industrial Revolution |  | 16 |
| 154231927 | agriculture revolution | The time when human begins first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. |  | 17 |
| 154231928 | Assyrian Empire | Stretched from Persian Gulf to Egypt and into Asia Minor. Divided into provinces headed by a governor under the king. Taxes were collected for army and building. Very brutal conquerors. Created first road system to connect empire. Capital: Ninevah |  | 18 |
| 154231929 | Roman Empire | An empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome. |  | 19 |
