World History Themes Vocabulary
Hunting and Gathering: Prior to sedentary agriculture, humans would hunt and gather their food.
Culture: A society in a certain time and place.
Band: A division of nomadic hunting and gathering tribes
Matrilocal: A husband and wife living with the wife’s family.
Bronze Age: Bronze Age: The time where there was much manufacture of bronze weapons and tools.
Slash and Burn Agriculture: The cutting and burning trees to make way for a village, for example.
Nomads: People who do not have a permanent home. They move when seasons change or when food is scarce.
Agrarian Revolution: The change/transition of hunting and gathering societies to agriculture for a greater production of food.
Matrilineal: Descended from a female ancestor.
Domestication: The process of becoming “tame.” To live like a “civilized” person.
Savages: People who are either in hunting and gathering groups or migratory cultivating groups.
Neanderthals: A person who is old fashioned; doesn’t like change.
Natufian Complex: Pre-agricultural culture that practiced collection of barley and wheat to increase game. (Located at present day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.)
Pastoralism: Raising livestock.
Social Differentiation: Differences between certain groups.
Ideographs: Characters, like Mandarin, for example.
“Mean People”: Performed rough transport and unskilled jobs. Suffered with lowest possible status.
Dynasty: A sequence of powerful leaders from the same family.
Analects: A collection of excerpts from literary work.
Legalism: Strict law.
Patriarchalism: Women differ from men. Most of the time they are treated harshly. Men control the society.
Untouchables: Lowest caste in Indian society.
Reincarnation: The previous life of a person. Past lives are some sort of animate.
Nirvana: A state of tranquility.
Great Wall: In the Qin Dynasty of China, they created this defensive barrier between themselves and the nomadic invaders.
Hellenistic Age: The spread of Greek influence. Much cultural diffusion.
Peloponnesian Wars: War between Athens and Sparta to see who gains southern Greek dominance. Sparta won, but they failed to unify Greece.
Direct Democracy: All decisions emanated from popular assembly without intermediation of elected representatives.
Punic Wars: Wars between Rome and Carthage to establish west Mediterranean dominance. Romans won.
Aristocracy: A privileged class holding noble titles.
Persian Wars: Wars between the Greeks and Persians. Persians wanted to dominate Greece, but failed to do so. Persians never fought the Greeks again.
Polis: City-State form of government.
Tyranny: Dictatorship.
Olympic Games: A gathering of different civilizations for sporting events; a competition.
Vocabulary was found on the Stearns World History Glossary
Vocabulary Listed: By: Reema N
Culture: A society in a certain time and place.
Band: A division of nomadic hunting and gathering tribes
Matrilocal: A husband and wife living with the wife’s family.
Bronze Age: Bronze Age: The time where there was much manufacture of bronze weapons and tools.
Slash and Burn Agriculture: The cutting and burning trees to make way for a village, for example.
Nomads: People who do not have a permanent home. They move when seasons change or when food is scarce.
Agrarian Revolution: The change/transition of hunting and gathering societies to agriculture for a greater production of food.
Matrilineal: Descended from a female ancestor.
Domestication: The process of becoming “tame.” To live like a “civilized” person.
Savages: People who are either in hunting and gathering groups or migratory cultivating groups.
Neanderthals: A person who is old fashioned; doesn’t like change.
Natufian Complex: Pre-agricultural culture that practiced collection of barley and wheat to increase game. (Located at present day Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.)
Pastoralism: Raising livestock.
Social Differentiation: Differences between certain groups.
Ideographs: Characters, like Mandarin, for example.
“Mean People”: Performed rough transport and unskilled jobs. Suffered with lowest possible status.
Dynasty: A sequence of powerful leaders from the same family.
Analects: A collection of excerpts from literary work.
Legalism: Strict law.
Patriarchalism: Women differ from men. Most of the time they are treated harshly. Men control the society.
Untouchables: Lowest caste in Indian society.
Reincarnation: The previous life of a person. Past lives are some sort of animate.
Nirvana: A state of tranquility.
Great Wall: In the Qin Dynasty of China, they created this defensive barrier between themselves and the nomadic invaders.
Hellenistic Age: The spread of Greek influence. Much cultural diffusion.
Peloponnesian Wars: War between Athens and Sparta to see who gains southern Greek dominance. Sparta won, but they failed to unify Greece.
Direct Democracy: All decisions emanated from popular assembly without intermediation of elected representatives.
Punic Wars: Wars between Rome and Carthage to establish west Mediterranean dominance. Romans won.
Aristocracy: A privileged class holding noble titles.
Persian Wars: Wars between the Greeks and Persians. Persians wanted to dominate Greece, but failed to do so. Persians never fought the Greeks again.
Polis: City-State form of government.
Tyranny: Dictatorship.
Olympic Games: A gathering of different civilizations for sporting events; a competition.
Vocabulary was found on the Stearns World History Glossary
Vocabulary Listed: By: Reema N
