A | B |
bureaucracy | system of managing government |
geography | study of people and their environment |
polytheism | belief in many gods |
Hammurabi's Code | written system of laws |
trade | brought changes to people's lives |
Old Stone Age | earliest period of human history |
pyramids | tombs |
prehistory | before written history |
Hatshepsut | first woman pharoah |
glacier | large sheet of ice |
technology | tools for doing work |
domestication | taming |
empire | area ruled by a ruler |
nomad | wanderer |
cuneiform | form of writing with a wedge and clay |
archaeology | study of physical remains |
Neolithic Age | when man changed to farming |
artifacts | remains made by humans |
Fertile Crescent | land between the Tigris and Euphrates |
cultural diffusion | spreading of ideas and customs |
tribune | protected the common people |
consul | head of the senate |
Justinian | code of laws |
Punic Wars | Rome vs. Carthage |
Spartacus | led 2 year slave revolt |
aqueducts | bring fresh water |
Plebians | common Romans |
Messiah | savior |
Constantine | built Constantinople |
patricians | wealthy Romans |
martyr | someone who dies for their beliefs |
Twelve Tables | written code of Roman laws |
Pax Romana | 27-180 |
Muhammad | prophet and founder of Islam |
Hannibal | crossed Alps on elephants |
Marcus Aurelius | end of Pax Romana |
Pericles | democracy flourished under him |
Hammurabi | eye for and eye |
Alexander the Great | from Macedonia |