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Chapter 1-4
Question | Answer |
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the biological species to which modern human beings belong | homo-sapiens |
a pre-historic period that begun about 1800 b.c. during which people learned to polish stone tools and make pottery and grow crops | neolithic revolution |
the spreading of ideas or products from one cultural to another | cultural diffusion |
a politcal system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live or the land | Feudalism |
a belief in many gods | polytheism |
a group of seminomadic people who, about 1700 b.c., began to migrate from what is now southern Russia to the Indian subcontinent, Europe, and Southwest Asia | Indo-Europeans |
one of the 4 classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India | Caste |
a seafearing and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 b.c. | Minoans |
a seafearing people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 b.c. began to trade and found colonies throughout the mediterranean region | Phoenicians |
a belief in a single god | monotheism |
a government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure government controlled by religious leaders | theocracy |
a road in the Persian Empire, stretching over 1600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anarolia | royal road |
the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible- the most sacred writing in the Jewish tradition | torah |
chinese philosopher and teacher | confucius |
a government in which the ruler has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner | Autocracy |