5667202559 | Hominid | Humans and other creatures that walk upright | 0 | |
5667202560 | Civilization | A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structures, religion and art | 1 | |
5667202561 | Plebian | In the roman republic a social clas made up of minor landholders, craftspeople, merchants, and small farmers | 2 | |
5667202562 | Triumvirate | A government by 3 people with equal powers | 3 | |
5667202563 | Hijrah | The journey of Muhammad and his followers to Madinah in 622, which became year of the official calender of Islam | 4 | |
5667202564 | Hijj | A pilgrimage to Makka, one of the requirments of the 5 pillars of Islam | 5 | |
5667202565 | Feudalism | Polical and social order that developed during the middle ages when royal governments were no longer able to defend their subjects; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 6 | |
5667202566 | Vassal | Under feudalism, a man who served a lord in a military capacity | 7 | |
5667202567 | Chivalry | In the middle ages, the ideal of civilized behavior that developed among the nobility; code of ethics knights had to uphold | 8 | |
5667202568 | Fief | Under feudalism, a grant of land made to a vassal | 9 | |
5667202569 | Dowry | A gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage, either by the bride's parents to her husband or, in Islamic societies by a husband to his wife | 10 | |
5667202570 | Lay investiture | The practice by which secular rulers both chose nominees to church offices and gave the symbols of their office | 11 | |
5667202571 | Interdict | A decree by the pope that forbade priests from frin giving the sacraments of the church to the people | 12 | |
5667202572 | Infidel | An unbeliever | 13 | |
5667202573 | Anti-semitism | Hostility or discrimination against Jews | 14 | |
5667202574 | Humanism | An intellectual movement of the renaissance based on the study | 15 | |
5667202575 | Indulgence | A release from all or part of punishments for sin by the catholic church | 16 | |
5667202576 | Predestination | Belief that God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be damned | 17 | |
5667202577 | Mercantillism | A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century | 18 | |
5667202578 | Encomienda | A system of labor the spanish used in the americas | 19 | |
5667202579 | Inflation | Rapid increase in prices | 20 | |
5667202580 | Divine right of kings | The belief that kings recieve their power from God and are responsible to only god | 21 | |
5667202581 | Puritans | English protestants who thought church needed further reform and sought to simplify forms of worship | 22 | |
5667202582 | Natural rights | The principle set forth by charles darwin that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others | 23 | |
5667202583 | Absolutism | Political system in which ruler has total power | 24 | |
5667202584 | Mannerism | An artistic movement that emerged in Italy; marked the end of the renaissance by breaking down principles of balance, harmony, and moderationn | 25 |
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