Flashcards: History

North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America.

The history of South America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation on the continent of South America.

An antique (Latin: antiquus; "old", "ancient") is an old collectable item.

White people is a racial classification specifier, used for people of Europid ancestry, with the exact implications dependent on context.

The Yellow Peril (also Yellow Terror and Yellow Spectre) was a racist color-metaphor that is conceptually integral to the xenophobic theory of colonialism; that the peoples of East Asia are a danger to the Western World.

In Christian terminology, docetism (from the Greek δοκεῖν/δόκησις dokeĩn (to seem) dókēsis (apparition, phantom), according to Norbert Brox, is defined narrowly as "the doctrine according to which the phenomenon of Christ, his historical and bodily existence, and thus above all the human form of Jesus, was altogether mere semblance without any true reality." Broadly it is taken as the belief that Jesus only seemed to be human, and that his human form was an illusion. The word Δοκηταί Dokētaí (illusionists) referring to early groups who denied Jesus' humanity, first occurred in a letter by Bishop Serapion of Antioch (197–203), who discovered the doctrine in the Gospel of Peter, during a pastoral visit to a Christian community using it in Rhosus, and later condemned it as a forgery. It appea

The history of Central America is the study of the region known as Central America.

Historical demography is the quantitative study of human population in the past.

Naivety (or naïvety or naïveté) is the state of being naïve, that is to say, having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication, often in a context where one neglects pragmatism in favor of moral idealism.

Social oppression is the socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group of individuals.

The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.

A peon is a person subject to peonage (/ˈpiːɒn/, from Spanish peón [peˈon]), a type of involuntary servitude of laborers (peon) having little control over their employment conditions.

Historical sociology is a branch of sociology focusing on how societies develop through history.

Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication.

History is the study of the past.

Universal history is a term for a work aiming at the presentation of the history of humankind as a whole, as a coherent unit.

This history by period summarizes significant eras in the history of the world, from the ancient world to the present day.