Question | Answer |
Culture | The way of life for a group of people at a particular time |
Primary source | evidence or an artifact directly from the place |
artifacts | a simple object made by someone in the past |
Architecture | the way buildings are planned and made |
legacies | something passed down through generations such as religions, ideas, or and object |
irrigation | system used to carry water from a river to where it needed to go |
pre-history | before records were kept |
history | records were kept |
Surplus | an extra supply of something |
specialization | someone who trains to do a particular kind of work |
Drought | A long period of time without rain;dry weather |
barter | to trade |
hieroglyphics | a from of writing used by egyptians 800 symbols that stand for sounds |
Rosetta Stone | A black stone found in egypt w/ 3 different languages; hieroglyphics, greek, egyptian demotic |
apartheid | A seperation of races |
Khufu | Egyptian pharoah that lead the building of the great pyramid |
Code of law | A written set of laws that apply to everyone of a government |
Ziggurat | A temple where people of mesopotamia worshipped gods and godesses |
polytheism | the belief in many gods |
monotheism | the belief in one god |
Abraham | founder of Judaism |
Hammurabi | king of babylonian; code of hammurabi- eye for an eye, toe for a toe |
city-state | a self governing city |
Ancient Sumer | group of city states in mesopotamia |
Fertile crescent | Fertile region in south western asia |
Monk | A man that devotes his life to a god, a church, or other religious group |
Subcontinent | a large landmass connected to a continent |
Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama founded; END SUFFERING; dont want anything; a way to live |
Siddhartha Gautama | Ancient Indian leader known as Buddha who lead salt march |
Indus River Valley | where Indus is located; between Himalayas and Hindu Kush |
Himalayas | World's highest mountain range |
Hindu Kush | NW of India |
Pakistan | West of India known as a subcontinent |
Oracle bones | bones used to determine the future or decide who is royal |
communism | government that owns all of its property |
Shihuandi | Founded Qin dynasty in China and was emperor |
Meji Restoration | power was restored to emperor Meji in Japan after being shut off for iver 200 years |
Feudal Japan | system of organizing and governing society based on land and services |
Tokugawa Shogunate | emperor who unified Japan |
Pearl Harbor | Japan bombed and started US involvment in WWII |
emperor | supreme ruler of an empire |
archipelago | a chain of islands |
Oligarchy | a type of government where rich wealthy people rule |
Homer | epic poet who wrote Odyses and Illyad |
Alexandera the Great | King of Macedonia |
Aristotle | Greek Philospher teacher of Alexander the Great |
Socrates | Greek Philospher who challenged people on how they live sentenced to death |
Trial By Jury | A case where a jury decides innocent or guilty |
republic | citizens vote on representatives to speak for them |
plebians | farmers craftworkers and merchants |
patricians | noble wealthy people |
WWII;holocaust | the killing of 6 million jews soley because they were Jewish |
dictator | supreme power over all and rules all by themself |
Adolf Hitler | lead Germeny through WWII |
Manor | Large Estates owned by wealthy nobles |
Prime Meridian | The 0 degrees Longatude line |
Equator | The 0 degrees Latitude line |
Why did the Isrialites leave to go to Egypt? | they left for egypt to go and find food because of the flood that happened where they lived. |
The Surplus food produced by agriculture meant that _________. | non-farmers were free to develop other important skills |
Stone Age people used technology when they______. | shaped stones to use for hunting |
what was the most significant development in human history? | agriculture |
What did egyptian farmers use irrigation for? | to water their crops |
How was the religion of ancient hebrews different from Middle Eastern religion? | Hebrews believed in 1 god |
What was hebrew law governing religious belief and behavior based on? | The ten commandments |
Who was the king of babylon that built dams alsong the Euphrates and attaked the Sumerians? | Sargon |
Why did the people that lived in Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa leave their cities? | Because of an earthquake |
What does most of the water come from that floods the Indus River? | The snow in the Himalayan Mountains |
Why do historians know less about the Harrapan civilization then than they do about the Ancient Egyptian and the Mesopotamian? | Historians have not been able to translate (read) their written records. |
What are the names of the groups that Hindus are divided up into? | castes |
What did emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty oversee the construction of? | schools |
What did Shihuangdi set up in order to help unify China? | A system of writing |
What were the chinese first to invent? | the seismograph |
What problem did Loess create for the Huang valley farmers? | It clogged irrigation ditches |
What title was Alexander the great given in Alexandria Egypt? | pharoah |
What did the tribunes do for the plebians? | Worked to gain their rights |
Who were slaves? | prisoners of war |
Why did most children die before age 12 in ancient Rome? | war |
Why is the ides of March important to Roman history? | it was when Julius Caesar was murdered |
What are the three main groups that are tied to the early history of Rome are?? | Latins, Greeks, and the Etruscans |
Who held Japan under firm and unified rule from 1600-1800? | Tokugawa Shogunate |