7th Grade Social Studies Terms Review (Quizlet)

Definition: the shore of a sea or ocean

• island

• barter

• Census

• coast

Definition: A person who works for another in order to learn a skilled trade

• citizen

• city-state

• peninsula

• apprentice

Definition: In ancient Rome, a member of the privileged upper class.

• Patrician

• Scarcity

• persecute

• peninsula

cast out from the church

• city-state

• Specialization

• excommunicate

• Democracy

the development of skills in a specific kind of work

• Patrician

• excommunicate

• Dictatorship

• Specialization

a group of buyers and sellers of a good or service and the institution or arrangement by which they come together to trade

• market

• barter

• Scarcity

• assembly

A government ruled by a king or queen

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

a decision-making process in which you compare what you will sacrifice and gain by a specific action

• cost-benefit analysis

• Interdependence

• Scarcity

• Plebians

the dependence of two or more people or things on each other.

• Patrician

• persecute

• Interdependence

• Specialization

government by the people

• persecute

• Patrician

• excommunicate

• Democracy