Neolithic Revolution
This term refers means "New Stone Age", and refers to the time period when people stopped moving around following a food source and stayed in one place to farm and build civilizations.
Neolithic Revolution
This is a term used to describe when men dominated the society.
PATRIARCHAL
This is the name of the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lives.
HAJJ
This term refers to all of the plants, animals, and diseases that crossed the Atlantic Ocean after 1492.
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
This is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
HELIOCENTRIC
This key term refers to the way of life that a group of people follow.
CULTURE
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority. Usually an emperor or an empress.
EMPIRE
This term refers to the journey that the prophet Muhammad and his followers made from Mecca to Medina.
HIJRAH
A state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
CITY STATE
This is the ability to think logically about something. It is also the application of the Scientific Method to an understanding of all life.
REASON
This key term means a society that has a city.
CIVILIZATION
This term refers to a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
OLIGARCHY
A book that Muslims believe is the direct word of God as revealed through the prophet Muhammad
QURAN
This is an economic system that rewarded Spanish migrants with land, and the labor of the people living on the land in the new world.
ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
A system in which rulers tried to govern using Enlightenment principles while still maintaining their full royal power.
ENLIGHTENED ABSOLUTISM
This is the Greek word for “between two rivers.”
MESOPOTAMIA
This term refers to a government or organization where the majority rules.
DEMOCRACY
He is believed by Muslims to be the last prophet who received God’s revelations directly through the angel Gabriel.
MUHAMMAD
A leader in the Spanish conquest in the Americas. The name means "conquerors".
CONQUISTADOR
A form of government in which Absolute Monarchs encourage reforms based on the ideas of the Enlightenment.
ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM
This term refers to the first group of people to plant crops, stay in one place, and build civilizations.
NATUFIANS
This term refers to a family of rulers whose right to rule is passed on within the family.
DYNASTY
This term refers to an Islamic house of worship.
MOSQUE
This was the network of trade across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe, Africa, and Colonial America.
TRIANGULAR TRADE ROUTE
A change in the outlook/thinking of educated Europeans in the 1600's. These thinkers wanted to examine human life using reason.
ENLIGHTENMENT