Vocab and main ideas from the earth and its peoples third edition
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| 270942699 | Confucianism | Chinese philosopher Kongzi(551-479 BCE) his doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials | 0 | |
| 270942700 | Aanalects | ... | 1 | |
| 270942701 | Hammurabi Code | First set of written laws principles to use in legal cases made by Hammurabi Amorite ruler of Babylon(1792-1750 BCE) He conqured many city-states in southern/northern mesopotamia | 2 | |
| 270942702 | Paleolithic/Neolithic | ... | 3 | |
| 270942703 | Pyramid | large triangular stone monument, used in the Egypt and Nubia as a burial place for the king largest pyramid erected during Old Kingdom near Memphis | 4 | |
| 270942704 | Legalism | Used in china as political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature. The QIN ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime. | 5 | |
| 270942705 | Pastoralism | ... | 6 | |
| 270942706 | Mandate Of Heaven | used in Chinese as religious and political ideology developed by the ZHOU,the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China and take away the power if ruler failed | 7 | |
| 270942707 | Monotheism/Polytheism | ... | 8 | |
| 270942708 | Ziggurat | Massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud brick. its associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cites function unknown | 9 | |
| 270942709 | Daoism | (Chinese school of thought originated in warring sates with Laozi) Daoist believe that the world is always changing and they accept the world as they find it aboding struggles and deviate as little from the DAO or "path" of nature | 10 | |
| 270942710 | Cuneiform | system of writing with wedge-shaped symbols represented word or syllables. Originate in Mesopotamia and used for SUMERIAN/AKKADIAN later adapted to represent other languages of western asia. Only highly educated SCRIBES could learn | 11 | |
| 270942711 | Civilzation | Complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologist to describe any group of people sharing set of cultural traits | 12 | |
| 270942712 | Domestication | ... | 13 | |
| 271037804 | Tigris River | The Tigris River (English pronunciation: /ˈtaɪɡrɪs/) is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq. | 14 | |
| 271037805 | Thebes | e Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor. The Theban Necropolis is situated nearby on the west bank of the Nile. | 15 | |
| 271037806 | Chavin de Huantar | north of Lima, Peru, at an elevation of 3,180 meters (10,430 ft), east of the Cordillera Blanca at the start of the Conchucos Valley. | 16 | |
| 271037807 | Andes Mts. | The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. | 17 | |
| 271037808 | Yellow River | Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. | 18 |
