| A | B |
|---|
| anthropology | study of bones and artifacts to find physical characteristics |
| archaeology | study of objects left behind by people |
| paleolithic | old stone age 500,000-10,000 bc |
| theocracy | relgious leader rules |
| barter system | trading |
| neolithic | new stone age 10,000-3,500bc |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| nile river | giver of life |
| hieroglyphics | system of writing developed by Egyptian priests |
| Hatshepsut | first women ruler |
| pharaoh | a ruler who became Osirus when he died |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| Ramses II | last pharoah of empire age |
| osiris | his death and rebirth identified with rise and fall of the nile |
| Jean Champollian | cracked the code of the Rosetta Stone |
| cuneiform | term used to describe the wedge shaped writing of ancient sumerians |
| mespotamia | land between two rivers |
| Assyrians | had a harsh government, used terror for punishment. Made great royal road and world's first library |
| Satrap | govenor who ruled provinces |
| Zoroastrianism | ancient religion. There are two forces in the world; good and evil |
| Phoenicians | carriers of civilization. made alphabet, purple dye, etc. |
| Lydians | were famous for trade and coined money |
| Code of Hammurabi | 282 laws. Best known whas an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth |
| Shang Dynasty | 4,000 years ago |
| Taoism | system of teaching based on ideas of the Tao |
| Buddah | leader of religios a tradition |
| Confucius | China's first teacher |
| 5 relationships | parent/child, husband/wife, older sibling/ younger sibling, older friend/ younger friend, ruler/subject |
| Aryans | group similar to Hittites. First civilization in India |
| Hinduism | worshiping gods of nature |
| Brahma | spirit uniting everything in universe |
| Vishnu | preserver |
| Shiva | destroyer |
| reincarnation | having another life after death |
| atman | duty of individual |
| castes | based on wealth |
| four noble truths | pain and suffering are universal, cause of pain is desire, get rid of disire to get rid of pain, to overcome desire follow the middle path |
| Iliad | first great epic poem |
| acropolis | fortified part of city |
| city state | self governing city |
| Delian Leage | defensice alliance formed by Athenians |
| Spartan | highly self discipline, loved war |
| Athens | believed in a well rounded person |
| helots | people who believe in sun centered universe |
| Homer | writer of two epic poems |
| ostracism | a practise where members of an assembly wrote the name of a person they didn't like down and if that person got to many votes they were kicked out. |
| polis | greek city state |
| Battle of Marathon | Athens won. A runner ran from marathon to athens yelling that Athens one before dying |
| Xerxes | persian monarch in 486 bc |
| Socrates | a critic of sophits |
| Aristotle | thought that by examining objects you can perceve their form |
| Plato | greatest philosopher |
| Alexander the Great | great ruler |
| Philip II | Alexander the Great's dad. Built great military |
| Hellenistic | age that saw expantion of Greece |
| Pax Romana | roman peace |
| aqueduct | channel that carries water |
| 12 tables of law | Rome's first code of laws |
| patricians | great land owners who became Rome's ruling class |
| plebians | less weathly Romans |
| Julius Caesar | great speaker and ruler who was stabed |
| Octavian | first Roman empire. Also known as Augustus |
| Augustus | First Roman empire . Also known as Octavian |
| Nero | evil, wicked ruler. a quack |
| Mark Antony | comited suicide |
| Senate | 300 land owning men who advised government officials. ruled for life |
| consuls | officers of Roman republic |
| First Triumvirate | Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey. |
