275905129 | nomads | member of a group that has no permanent name, wandering from place to place in search of food and H2O | 0 | |
275905130 | pre-history | period of time before writing | 1 | |
275905131 | Paleolithic Period | Prehistoric--peroid of time in which people used stone tools and weapons | 2 | |
275905132 | Neolithic Period | people learned to polish stone tools, make pottery,grow crops and raise animals | 3 | |
275905133 | cities first emerged in | River valleys | 4 | |
275905134 | the First civilizaton was in | the Mesopotamia river valley | 5 | |
275905135 | Mesopotamia | first civilization located along the Tigris-Eurphrates rivers | 6 | |
275905136 | Torah | duhhhh | 7 | |
275905137 | Monotheism | worshipping ONE god | 8 | |
275905138 | city planning and plumbing experts | Indus valley civilizaation grid system | 9 | |
275905139 | Oracle bones | animal bones or tortoise shells used by ancient Chines priests to communicate with ancient gods | 10 | |
275905140 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history,the divine apporval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 11 | |
275905141 | theocracy | govt controlled by religious leaderss | 12 | |
275905142 | pharoh | king of ancient Egypt, considereda god as well as apolitical +military leader | 13 | |
275905143 | Pyramids | built in Egypt as tombs for Pharohs | 14 | |
275905144 | Mummification | porcess of drying corpses to prevent decay | 15 | |
275905145 | polytheism | worshippping more than one god | 16 | |
275905146 | Hieroglyphics | egyptian writing systme where picttures represented symbols or ideas | 17 | |
275905147 | Hammurabi's Code | MOST FAMOUS early code of law in Babylon | 18 | |
275905148 | Important geography of Greece | separated by mountains +hills---no place more than 85 miles from the sea | 19 | |
275905149 | Polis | Greek city-state | 20 | |
275905150 | Acropolis | a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city | 21 | |
275905151 | Democracy | govt controlled by its citizens either directly or through representatives | 22 | |
275905152 | Oligarchy | govt in which power is in hands of a FEW people--esp in whch one rule is base upon wealth | 23 | |
275905153 | Nike of Saothrace | statue of a goddess | 24 | |
275905154 | Hippocrates | father of medicine--Hippocaratic oath | 25 | |
275905155 | Herodotus | father of History | 26 | |
275905156 | Socrates | questioned conventionala wisdom to improve the soul | 27 | |
275905157 | Aristotle | stressed moderation and balance in behavior--wrote on logic and experimentattion | 28 | |
275905158 | Plato | decrase importance of spirituality , increase importance of human thinking (similar to Confuscius | 29 | |
275905159 | Pythagoras | Pythagorean theorem | 30 | |
275905160 | differnces between Sparta and Athens | Sparta--create a good soldier,learned to fight,weak babies left to die---travel FORBIDDEN AThens---create a good citizen beatuiful , hate what is ugly, reading, writing,arats were IMPT | 31 | |
275905161 | Romulus | according to mythology he named Rome | 32 | |
275905162 | Plebian | commoners who pleaded for rights | 33 | |
275905163 | Patrician | aristocrats | 34 | |
275905164 | Hannibal | general in Carthages army:hated Rome & sought to destroy it | 35 | |
275905165 | Cato | senator who wanted to destroy Carthage | 36 | |
275905166 | Punic wars | rome fought carthage & won dominance of the Mediterranean defeated Hannibals army | 37 | |
275905167 | Julius Caesar | brilliant general--March 15 44 BCE conspirators assinated him | 38 | |
275905168 | Pax Roman | the peace of Rome | 39 | |
275905169 | Octavian(Augustus) | Caesars heir--gets Rome | 40 | |
275905170 | Rome fell in | 476 year | 41 | |
275905171 | Roman Law | always supreme;ruler governed , not personal whim,focus on laws:not bureacracy, tolerated local & political diversity | 42 | |
275905172 | Differences betw Roman Cath Church & Eastern Orthodox Church | RC--latin Lang; POPE ruled:used icons EO--Greek lang | 43 | |
275905173 | Icons | religious image---Iconoclats--supporterrs of the emperor | 44 | |
275905174 | JUSTINIAN;S code | civil law;uniform code that regulated marriage, slavery, property,womens rights | 45 | |
275905175 | Iconclatic controversy | icon breaker | 46 | |
275905176 | Constantinople fell in | 1453 to the OTTOMAN Turks | 47 | |
275905177 | New Rome | Constantinople fell in 1453 | 48 | |
275905178 | IVAN III | Ivan the Great first CZAR of Russia--kicks Mongols out | 49 | |
275905179 | Saint Cyril | Cyrillic alphabet created for Russians | 50 | |
275905180 | Third Rome | Moscow | 51 | |
275905181 | Mongols | norsmen from central Asia made heir way ato Russia under the rule Ghengus Khan | 52 | |
275905182 | Muhammad | born in Mecca---only one god (allah) | 53 | |
275905183 | Hajj | pilgrmage to Mecca;holy duty to Muslims | 54 | |
275905184 | Qu'ran | holy book of Islam | 55 | |
275905185 | allah | god | 56 | |
275905186 | Mosque | Islamic place of worship | 57 | |
275905187 | Mecca | where Mohammad was born | 58 | |
275905188 | Medina | Muhammaed ycreated an agreement that aligned his own people with arabs & Jews as a single community | 59 | |
275905189 | Jerusalem | holy city in Israel | 60 | |
275905190 | Kaab a | black Mystical box in Mecca--most holy location in Islam | 61 | |
275905191 | Five Pillars of Islam | faith,prayer,charity fasting, Pilgramage | 62 |
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