History Vocabulary
Intro Into History: Vocabulary
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- fertile crescent
- middle eastern region arching across the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- CE
- "common Era"; the period coinciding with the Christian Era
- Chronological
- arranged in order of time (or when things occurred)
- worldview
- a comprehensive and usually personal conception or view of humanity, the world, or life
- Introspection
- observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself; the contemplation of your own thoughts and feelings
- metanarrative
- "big story" - represents in short an explanation for everything that happens in society
- AD
- Anno Domini: "in the year of the Lord"; since Christ was born; used following dates after the year of Christ's birth
- evidence
- that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof
- Metacognition
- awareness and understanding of one's thinking and cognitive processes; thinking about thinking
- Circa
- in approximately; about; around(time)
- Humanities
- studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
- BCE
- before the Common/Christian Era
- taint
- to contaminate morally; to affect with putrefacation; to affect slightly with something bad; to become weak
- BC
- "before Christ"; before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born
- oral tradition
- a way for society to transmit history, literature, law, and other knowledges across generations without a writing system
- Francis Schaeffer
- an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor; most famous for writings and extablishment of L'Abri community in Switzerlang
- Ethnographic
- of or relating to the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human creatures
- sufficiency
- the fact or state of being enough
- civilization
- an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached; any type of culture, society, etc, of a specific place, time, or group
- linear
- of, consisting of, or using lines