H Terms

1. H Terms

2. What is the term? #1. A series of uprisings (1791-1804) of the slaves and free blacks in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingueand the only fully successful slave rebellion in world history.

3. Haitian Revolution #1. A series of uprisings (1791-1804) of the slaves and free blacks in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingueand the only fully successful slave rebellion in world history.

4. What is the term? #2. The pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim show is able is required to make. It is one of the Five Pillar of Islam.

5. haji #2. The pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim show is able is required to make. It is one of the Five Pillar of Islam.

6. What is the term? #3. A Middle Eastern people whose development of a monotheistic faith provided the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their traditions describe their early migration from Mesopotamia to Palestine, the enslavement of some in Egypt, and their escape back to Palestine.

7. Hebrews #3. A Middle Eastern people whose development of a monotheistic faith provided the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their traditions describe their early migration from Mesopotamia to Palestine, the enslavement of some in Egypt, and their escape back to Palestine.

8. What is the term? #4. The period of Japanese history from 794 to 1192C.E. during which life centered around Japan’s second capital city, Kyoto, which was modeled on the Chinese capital of Chang’an. It saw the rise of an aristocratic culture, the development of Japanese writing, and new schools of Buddhism.

9. Heian Period #4. The period of Japanese history from 794 to 1192C.E. during which life centered around Japan’s second capital city, Kyoto, which was modeled on the Chinese capital of Chang’an. It saw the rise of an aristocratic culture, the development of Japanese writing, and new schools of Buddhism.

10. What is the term? #5. The theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun, proposed by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and accepted in the West in the sixteenth century.

11. heliocentric theory #5. The theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun, proposed by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and accepted in the West in the sixteenth century.

12. What is the term? #6. The period from 323 to 30 B.C.E. in which Greek culture spread widely throughout the Eurasian kingdoms ruled by the political successors of Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 B.C.E.).

13. Hellenistic era #6. The period from 323 to 30 B.C.E. in which Greek culture spread widely throughout the Eurasian kingdoms ruled by the political successors of Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 B.C.E.).

14. What is the term? #7. An ancient Egyptian form of writing that employed pictures or symbols as its characters.

15. hieroglyphics #7. An ancient Egyptian form of writing that employed pictures or symbols as its characters.

16. What is the term? #8. The name given to the body of religious teachings and practices, derived from the Brahmanic religion of the Vedic era.

17. Hinduism #8. The name given to the body of religious teachings and practices, derived from the Brahmanic religion of the Vedic era.

18. What is the term? #9. The Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews and many more “undesirables” in German-occupied lands during World War Two (1939-1945).

19. Holocaust #9. The Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews and many more “undesirables” in German-occupied lands during World War Two (1939-1945).

20. What is the term? #12. The species of hominid to which modern humans belong. Most scholars place the origins of the species in Africa perhaps 200,000 years ago. Emerging out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, they gradually migrated to the rest of the world.

21. Homo sapiens #12. The species of hominid to which modern humans belong. Most scholars place the origins of the species in Africa perhaps 200,000 years ago. Emerging out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, they gradually migrated to the rest of the world.

22. What is the term? #13. The name given to Protestants in France in the mid-sixteenth century. Often severely persecuted, they were granted reluctant toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598.

23. Huguenots #13. The name given to Protestants in France in the mid-sixteenth century. Often severely persecuted, they were granted reluctant toleration by the Edict of Nantes in 1598.

24. What is the term? #14. A widely practiced religious rite, particularly prominent in Mesoamerican religion.

25. human sacrifice #14. A widely practiced religious rite, particularly prominent in Mesoamerican religion.

26. What is the term? #15. A literary and intellectual movement that arose in Italy during the early fifteenth century to elevate the writings of Greco-Roman antiquity and to reconcile classical learning with Christianity. Practitioners studied the liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history and moral philosophy.

27. humanism #15. A literary and intellectual movement that arose in Italy during the early fifteenth century to elevate the writings of Greco-Roman antiquity and to reconcile classical learning with Christianity. Practitioners studied the liberal arts—grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history and moral philosophy.

28. What is the term? #16. People who lived by collecting food rather than deliberately producing it. This kind of economy sustained humankind for 95 percent or more of human history.

29. hunters and gathers #16. People who lived by collecting food rather than deliberately producing it. This kind of economy sustained humankind for 95 percent or more of human history.