The major change in human life by the beginning of farming (the movement from food gathering to food producing)
Neolithic Revolution
a government controlled by religious leaders
theocracy
The holy book for Judaism
Torah
a military formation
a military formation of foot loose soliders armed with spears and shields
phalanx
a period of peace and prospierty throughout the Roman Empire
Pax Romana
The dispersal of Jews
Jewish diaspora
one who has submitted
Muslim
submission to the will of Allah
Islam
founder of Islam
Muhammad
relating to a social system in which family decent and lineage is traced through the mother
matrilineal
relating to a social system in which family decent and lineage is traced thriugh the father
patrilineal
a conflict in which England and France battled of french soil for over 100 years
Hundred Years War
the taking away of a persons rights membership to the christian church
excommunication
a pardon releasing a persons punishment due to sin
indulgence
an agreement between Spain and Portugal that gave newly discovered land to the west of the imaginary line to Spain and newly discovered land to the east to Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
an economic policy under which nations saught to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and selling more than good than they bought
mercantilism
a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose,then share the profits
joint- stock company
the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas