AP World History Vocab Chapter 4 Jacob Karafa Flashcards

191069928	ethnocentrism	belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group, tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups	0
191069929	xenophobia	an irrational fear of foreigners or strangers	1
191069930	reverberate	have a long or continuing effect, to reflect or be reflected repeatedly	2
191069931	Mycenae	Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy.	3
191069932	polis	Greek word for city-state	4
191069933	Battle of Marathon	in 490 B.C., King Darius sent army to attack Athens; Athenians defeated them on the Plain of Marathon; Pheidippides ran 26 miles with the news	5
191069934	Xerxes	son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C.	6
191069935	Acropolis	a large hill in ancient Greece where city residents sought shelter and safety in times of war and met to discuss community affairs, highest and most fortified point within a Greek city-state	7
191069936	Iberian Peninsula	the peninsula that is Spain and France, Southwestern tip of Europe: present location of Spain and Portugal	8
191069937	"Mystery" religions	1. imported form the Middle East, swept through Greece and Rome, emphasis on contact with divine powers. 2. A diverse group of beliefs and practices of ancient Greek and Roman civilization that included initiation into a specific group, a personal encounter with the deity, and hope for spiritual renewal and a better afterlife.	9
191069938	Herodotus	wrote about Persian war, father of history, word history comes from name, 1st to gather facts and write them down	10