History
Grammar resources
Vocabulary List
- antique
- An object or something coming from the past, especially from the antique period (-3500 B.C)
- archives
- documents containing informaton from the past about a place, a group or an event.
- historian
- someone who studies history
- anachronism
- wrong analysis based on a concept that didn't exist at the era of your analysis.
- area
- Period of history marked by important events or people.
- chronology
- succession of many events, study of the successsion of these events
- to map
- making a map of a territory or finding an emplacement.
- empire
- Domination of a group on a vast territory or on another group.
- head of state
- Someone who control a country
- invasion
- action of attaquing another group. Taking his land and his goods.
- treaty
- document signed by two or many groups in conflict to solve a problem
- parliamentary
- Member of the parliement, someone elcted who voted law.
- consequences
- resutl of a specific event taking place in the past. Historians are studying the consequences of historical events.
- conservatism
- The conservation of a political or a cultural ideology already present in a society.
- nationalism
- affiliation to a group of people sharing the same territory and the same culture.
- family tree
- This is a diagram where you write all your ancestry and where they come from. At the end, you see every one of your family.
- ancestry
- Someone who was in your family a long time ago and now dead.
- ruins
- It’s the rest of a place that was occupied before, a place where people lived before and now destroy.
- middle age
- Period of time between the failure of Rome and the discovery of America marqued by famines, war, insecurity and regressions.
- colonization
- taking possession of a territory, sometimes if it is still occupied, and take control of its resources.
- industrialisation
- It’s the period of time where we changed from an agrarian society to an industrial one.
- civilization
- state of economical, social and political developpement that many society have reach. It is consider by many as an ideal to reach.
- first nations
- the first people to establish on a territory and to live on it.
- slavery
- force someone to work for someone or something he doesn't want.
- mercantilism
- System of exploitation working with exchanges between a colony nd a metropole.
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