All Social Studies Terms - Review

Afro-Eurasia

• The continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe
• A belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
• First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
• An exaggerated concern for local or regional interests as opposed to concern for the interests of the whole.
• A series of interconnected trade routes linking China, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Monarchy

• A form of government where the supreme authority is a single person whose power is heredity
• A devotion to one’s nationa nd its interests
• the freeing of someone from slavery.
• The system in which each of the three branches of the United States government has specifically granted abilities to limit (“check”) the actions of the other branches, which ensures that no one branch becomes too powerful.
• Occurs when a group of people or animals move from one location to another

Classical Empire

• Empires that existed during the Classical Period 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E
• The colonial trade route between New England, Africa, and the West Indies
• The branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing, supporting and enforcing the laws, led by the office of the President of the United States.
• The process by which legislative and executive actions are subject to review by the judiciary; it is part of the checks and balances process that can determine if an act is unconstitutional.
• The claiming and controlling of a place or people gained by military force.

Monotheism

• Belief or worship in only one god.
• The practice of giving supporters government jobs
• A person who fights against the practice of slavery
• The study of physical and human systems and their changing spatial relationships across the surface of the Earth
• Land based trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean beginning in the Classical Period and remaining in use until the Early Modern Period

Democracy

• A system of government in which the power is held by the people, either directly or through elected representation
• To approve something
• identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
• A doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
• The process of altering or changing a document such as the U.S. Constitution.

Neolithic Revolution

• the transition from hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement
• To cancel
• a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause.
• Separating power between three branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial - to prevent abuse of power.
• A written plan of government with rules for political and social organization within a nation or state; it determines the powers and duties of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people in it.

Hunter-gather Societies

• A community that survives by foraging for food) which causes them to regularly move their settlement in order to obtain these resources.
• Rights that belong to all people from birth
• The colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution, and declared the United States of America an independent nation in July 1776.
• The condition that exists because there is insufficient supply to produce goods and services to meet everybody’s demand.
• Means “rebirth” and refers to the period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature from Ancient Greece and Rome.

Polytheism

• The belief or worship of more than one god.
• The continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe
• A theory that a nation’s economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations
• The production of a single good or service or a limited number of goods and services in order to increase productivity.
• When developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature

Republic

• A government in which citizens elect representatives to make decisions about the law for all the people.
• A form of government where the supreme authority is a single person whose power is heredity
• The power of one branch of government to cancel or postpone the decision or another branch
• In the United States, the branch of government at the federal and state levels that makes the laws. Includes the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Status of being a citizen; membership in a community.

Empire

• A group of people and land under one supreme ruler.
• Empires that existed during the Classical Period 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E
• A tax on foreign goods brought into a country
• In the United States, the branch of government at the federal and state levels that interprets laws and administers justice.
• The distribution of power between the levels of government.