U.S.History 1
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- culture
- common values and traditions of a society, such as language, government and family relationships
- Columbian Exchange
- transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia and Africa
- joint-stock companies
- businesses formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses
- colony
- settlement created by new residents of an area
- monopoly
- sole economic control of a business or product
- Middle Ages
- Period of European history from the late 400's until around 1350
- migration
- movement of people from one region to another
- convert
- to change beliefs
- Silk Road
- overland trade route that linked China with other Asian markets as far west as the Black Sea
- strait
- narrow, winding sea passage
- societies
- groups of people who live together and share a culture
- Renaissance
- rebirth of interest in the arts and learning that spread across Europe in the mid 1300's and lasted until the 1600's
- crusades
- series of five wars launched by European Christians to gain possession of the Holy Land
- capital
- money or property that is used to earn more money
- archaeology
- study of the remains of the unwritten past
- feudalism
- system of government that arose during the Middle Ages in which people gave their loyalty to a lord in exchange for protection
- Magna Carta
- "Great Charter"; agreed to by King John of England, it gave the nobility and other individuals greater rights and made it clear that the nobility and monarchs must obey the law
- Black Death
- epidemic that spread through Europe from 1348 to about 1350 that killed as many as 75 million people
- Commercial Revolution
- period of economic development that took place in Europe in the 1400's and greatly changed the way merchants conducted business
- domestication
- process of breeding plants and animals for use by humans
- Northwest Passage
- nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for, hoping that it would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific