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| GEOGRAPHY | the study of the earth and its people |
| PREHISTORY | Long period of time before written history |
| TECHNOLOGY | the innovation of skills and tools used by people to make work easier |
| CITY-STATE | AN INDEPENDENT STATE CONSISTING OF A CITY AND THE SURROUNDING LAND AND VILLAGES |
| MONOTHEISM | BELIEF IN ONE GOD |
| POLYTHEISM | BELIEF IN MANY GODS |
| THEOCRACY | GOVERNMENT THAT COMBINES POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP |
| HINDUISM | Ethnic RELIGION OF INDIA |
| BUDDHISM | Eastern RELIGION BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA |
| CONFUCIANISM | Eastern PHILOSOPHY BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS |
| DAOISM | Eastern PHILOSOPHY BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF LAOZI |
| MONARCHY | GOVERNMENT RULED BY A KING OR A ROYAL FAMILY |
| OLIGARCHY | GOVERNMENT IN WHICH A SMALL GROUP HOLDS POLITICAL POWER |
| TYRANNY | GOVERNMENT IN WHICH POWER IS IN THE HANDS OF A PERSON WHO HAS SEIZED CONTROL |
| DEMOCRACY | GOVERNMENT IN WHICH CITIZENS HOLD POWER |
| ALLIANCE | an agreement between 2 or more states for their mutual benefit |
| BUREAUCRACY | a group of officials who administer day to day operations of a government |
| REPUBLIC | A government in which citizens elect their leaders |
| Man began to develop cave art during the _?_ Age. | Paleolithic |
| People with no fixed home who travel constantly to find food and water are: | Nomads |
| The Paleolithic period is characterized by the use of | Stone tools |
| New Stone Age. | Neolithic |
| Radio Carbon Dating | Determines how many atoms remain in an artifact |
| The period when people began to Farm and stay in one place | Neolithic Age |
| Use of Fire | Paleolithic Era |
| The way of life of a given people at a given time including language, behavior and beliefs is | culture |
| The Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Indus and Huang He | River Valley Civlizations |
| Skills and knowledge used by people to make tools | technology |
| The first metals used for tools | bronze and iron |
| he Phoenicians | expert sailors,expert tradersan alphabet |
| Egypt,Sumeria, and Babylon | Polythestic |
| contributions of the Hebrews | monotheism,Torah, Ten Commandments |
| Hebrews were enslaved and taken to Babylon. | The Exile |
| the written records and beliefs of the Hebrews. | Torah |
| Abraham's teachings of monotheism became the basis of | Judaism, Christianity, Islam |
| The Sumerians wrote _?_ | cuneiform |
| The Egyptians wrote _?_. | hieroglyphics |
| Hammurabi created a code of law to | unify the lands he controlled |
| A government that combines religious and political leadership | theocracy |
| The divided society used in India | Caste |
| major contributions of the Gupta Empire | literature,mathematics,new textiles |
| The Golden Age of India | Gupta Dynasty |
| major mountain passes into India? | Hindu Kush |
| migratory group who conquered and dominated India | Aryans |
| When the soul is born again | reincarnation |
| Hindus believe in | many forms of one god |
| Taoist values include | humility,simple life, inner peace, harmony with nature |
| The Huang He | Yellow river |
| two opposing forces in daoism | Yin and the Yang |
| Confucianism | People are good and want to stay that way |
| Chinese emperors were divine and had the _?_ | Mandate of Heaven |
| beliefs based on Confucianism | respect for elders,code of politeness,emphasis on education,ancestral worship |
| came from the East to the West along the Silk Road | porcelain,silk,paper |
| Invading India was difficult because of all of the following | Himalayas,Hindu Kush,Indian Ocean |
| Persia | tolerated the customs of the people they conquered,hey developed a central bureaucracy,] the Royal Road made travel easier |
| Sacred writings of Hinduism | Vedas and Upanishads |
| The way to Enlightenment | Eightfold Path |
| Taoist values | harmony and nature |
| The system by which government offices are given on the basis of a test | civil service |
| The ___?___ Empire stretched from Egypt to Turkey, through Mesopotamia to the Indus River and was the largest empire in the Ancient world. | Persian |
| a tyrant who organized the harsh laws of Athens into a written code of law. | Draco |
| The mixture of Greek and Eastern cultures that formed during and after Alexander | Hellenistic |
| government in which its power is in the hands of a person who has seized control ? | tyranny |
| a group of officials administer daily activities in a government | bureaucracy |
| Greek colonies spread throughout the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to | ease overcrowding and gain more food |
| The goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| Zeus' wife | Hera |
| The defensive alliance of Greek city-states with Athens as its leader was | Delian League |
| an alliance between Sparta and other Greek city-states | Peloponnesian League |
| e results of the Persian Wars | Sparta became the strongest city-state in Greece, Persians retreated to Asia Minor,Greeks controlled the Aegean Sea area,Greeks developed cultural and political ideas |
| The code of ethical conduct still practiced by modern doctors | Hippocratic Oath |
| Pericles | leader of Athens after the Persian Wars who rebuilt Athens and created the Delian League |
| Archimedes developed | , principle of buoyancy |
| believed in absolute truth and taught Plato | Socrates |
| a government ruled by nobles. | aristocracy |
| Homer | wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. |
| father of geometry. | Euclid |
| sculptor who created the statue of Athena on the Acropolis | Phidias |
| The father of history | Herodotus |
| Greek philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| A rigid social structure, militaristic,aggressive society | Sparta |
| Athens | had a direct democracy,citizens voted,government was the foundation of modern democracies |
| to explain natural phenomena,to explain life events, to explain human qualities | Greek and Roman myths |
| Greek and Roman _?_ are often included in the literature, art, architecture and politics of Western civilization. | mythological symbols and images |
| central location in Mediterranean Basin,protected by the Alps,seas provided avenues of commerce and trade | advantages of Rome's location |
| Jupiter | roman king of gods |
| juno | goddess of childbirth |
| Venus | goddess of love and beauty |
| type of government did early Rome have | monarchy |
| included common citizens and were a majority of the population | plebeians |
| Bronze tablets engraved with the laws of Rome | Twelve Tables |
| citizens of Rome | patricians, plebeians,Romanized Italians |
| Rome was divided into two main social class | plebeians and patricians, |
| center of Roman government and religion | Forum |
| kind of religion did the Romans have during the republic | polythestic |
| commanded the Carthaginian forces during the Second Punic War | Hannibal |
| duties of the consuls | ran day to day affairs,carried out the laws of Rome, commanded the army |
