Concepts for Unit 2

 

Economic terms:

·         Feudalism

·         Mercantilism

·         Capitalism

·         Communism

·         Fascism

 

Governmental terms:

·         Tribe

·         Kingdom or monarchy (ruler: king and/or queen)

·         Nation state

·         Constitutional monarchy

·         Oligarchy

·         Republic or representative democracy

 

Terms for developments in this era:

·         Empire (ruler: emperor) and the words imperial and imperialism

·         Colony

·         Colonization

·         Exploration

 

Terms about people who are not free by law:

·         Servitude

·         Master

·         Slave

·         Serf

·         Bondage or bound

·         Indentured servant

 

Tip: As I currently understand the history, the Spanish turn the Native Americans into the legal equivalent of serfs.

Terms about people who are free but have a feudal relationship of land and protection:

·         Feudalism

·         Lord

·         Subject or vassal

Tip:  Subject is used with feudalism but is still used as a term today for people in a monarchy.
Vassal is used specifically with feudalism.

 

Terms for religions involved in events:

·         Roman Catholicism

·         Pope (related terms of papacy or St. Peter)

·         Protestant Reformation

·         Lutheranism

·         Calvinism

·         Anglicanism