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World Cultures Vocabulary 

Welcome to the World Cultures vocabulary page. Use this webpage to find the definition of each vocabulary word as well as to study for upcoming quizzes and tests. All of these vocabulary terms are in your textbook. 

French Literature

Topic 0: Foundations of History

 

  • Historian

  • Timeline

  • Period

  • Prehistory

  • Chronology

  • Primary Source

  • Secondary Source

  • Artifact

  • Bias

  • Absolute Location

  • Relative Location

  • Place

  • Region

  • Movement

  • Human-Environment Interaction

  • Compass Rose  

  • Government  

  • Constitution

  • Civilization

  • Monarchy

  • Democracy

  • Authoritarian

  • Communism

  • Empire

  • Citizen

  • Civic Life

  • Political Party

  • Demand

  • Supply

  • Economics

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Please note, this section of vocabulary comes from this textbook. This textbook will be a classroom copy and students will have time in class to complete the vocabulary.  

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Topic 1: Origins of Civilization 

(Prehistory - 4000 BCE)

  • Anthropology 
  • Archaeologist 
  • Fossil
  • Geologist 
  • Hunter-gatherer
  • Accumulate 
  • Culture 
  • Nomad 
  • Reliable 
  • Network 
  • Populate 
  • Migration
  • Social Class
  • Revolution 
  • Domesticate
  • Specialization   
  • Religion 
  • Resource
  • Evidence 
  • Network
  • Environment  
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Topic 2: Civilizations and the People of the Fertile Crescent

(3400 BCE - 70 CE) 

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  • Fertile Crescent 
  • Mesopotamia
  • Irrigate
  • City-State
  •  Barter
  • Polytheism 
  • Ziggurat
  • Cuneiform
  • Hammurabi's Code
  • Tribute 
  • Currency 
  • Colony
  • Cultural Diffusion
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Topic 3: Ancient Egypt and Kush 

(3000 BCE - 600 BCE) 

  • Delta
  • Artisan
  • Pharaoh
  • Dynasty 
  • Bureaucracy
  • Mummy
  • Hieroglyphic
  • Papyrus
  • Pyramid 
  • Sculpture 
  • Anatomy 
  • Commerce
  • Interdependence 

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Topic 4: Early Civilizations of India
(3100 BCE - 540 CE) 

  • Subcontinent 
  • Monsoon
  • Caste
  • Guru 
  • Reincarnation 
  • Karma 
  • Meditate 
  • Enlightenment 
  • Nirvana 

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Topic 5: Early Civilizations of China
(1700 BCE - 220 CE)  

  • Great Wall
  • Standardize 
  • Legalism 
  • Censor 
  • Civil Service
  • Silk Road 
  • Cuisine 
  • Monopoly 
  • Calligraphy 
  • Seismometer
  • Acupuncture
  • Loess
  • Warlord 
  • Confucianism  
  • Chaos 
  • Filial Piety
  • Pictograph 
  • Warring State Period 
  • Mandate of Heaven 
  • Philosophy 
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Topic 6: Ancient Greece 
(2000 BCE - 300 BCE)

  • Polis
  • Peninsula 
  • Acropolis 
  • Politics 
  • Aristocracy 
  • Tenant Farmer 
  • Metic
  • Oligarchy 
  • Phalanx
  • Tyranny 
  • Democracy
  • Direct Democracy
  • Representative Democracy 
  • Helot 
  • Military State 
  • Barracks 
  • Delian League  
  • Peloponnesian League 
  • Alexandria 
  • Hellenistic 
  • Mythology 
  • Olympic games 
  • Socratic Method 
  • Hypothesis  
  • Hippocratic oath  

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Topic 7: The Roman Republic
(800 BCE - 30 BCE)

  • Forum 
  • Republic  
  • Legion
  • Constitution  
  • Veto 
  • Magistrate 
  • Toga
  • Consul 
  • Patriarchal Society 
  • Villa
  • Paterfamilias 
  •  Empire
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  • Province 
  • Civil War   
  • Augustus 
  • Deify  
  • Pax Romana 
  • Concrete
  • Aqueduct 
  • Greco-Roman 
  • Mosaic  
  • Gladiator 
  • Resurrection  
  • Baptism 
  • Crucifixion  
  • Martyr 
  • Trinity  
  • Ethics 
  • New Testament  
  • Gospel 
  • Barbarian  

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Topic 8: The Roman and Byzantine Empires
(30 BCE - 1453 CE) 

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Topic 9: Life in Medieval Christendom 
(486 - 1300) 

  • Middle Ages 
  • Medieval 
  • Topography 
  • Clergy 
  • Monastery 
  • Pagan 
  • Saint 
  • Convent 
  • Vassal 
  • Fief 
  • Chivalry 
  • Manor 
  • Serf
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  • Excommunicate 
  • Pilgrimage 
  • Magna Carta  
  • Common Law
  • Habeas Corpus 
  • Crusades 
  • Heresy 
  • Inquisition  
  • Iberian Peninsula 
  • Crop Rotation 
  • Guild 
  • Fallow  
  • Mendicant Order 
  • Hundred Years' War
  • Bubonic Plague 
  • Black Death 
  • University

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Topic 10: Struggle in Medieval Europe 
(962-1492)

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Topic 15: The Renaissance  And Reformation
(1300 - 1648)

  • Mercantile 
  • Renaissance 
  • Patron
  • Humanism 
  • Vernacular 
  • Individualism 
  • Utopia 
  • Satire 
  • Engraving 
  • Censor 
  • Linear Perspective 
  • Sonnet 
  • Picaresque 
  • Reformation 
  • Recant 
  • Sect 
  • Theocracy 
  • Counter-Reformation 
  • Jesuits 
  • Council of Trent 
  • Ghetto 
  • Edict 

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Quizlet Vocabulary: Chap. 24 & 25
Quizlet Vocabulary: Chap. 24 & 25
Quizlet Vocabulary: Chap. 24 & 25
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Topic 16: Global            Convergence
(1415 - 1763)

  • Circumnavigate
  • Cartography 
  • Caravel 
  • Conquistador  
  • Bullion 
  • Colonization 
  • Columbian Exchange 
  • Cottage Industry 
  • Mercantilism  
  • Traditional Economy 
  • Capitalism 
  • Market Economy 
  • Inflation 
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Quizlet Vocabulary: Chap. 26
Desert Highway

The End: Have a great and safe summer! 

"I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."  - Robert Frost 

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