S.S midterm review Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
acropolis | fortified hilltop and meeting place of male citizen's of ancient greece |
caste system | social system originated by the aryans who settled in india |
what are the indian caste systems | in order from higest rank to lowest is priest warriors peasnats and non aryan laborers |
cuneiform | early system of writing with wedge shapes pressed into clay used by the ancient summerians |
code of hammurabi | law code developed under the babylonians:" an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth" |
domestication | taming of animals for human use |
fertile crescent | crescent moon shaped rich soil region of Mesopotamia located betwen the tigris and euphrates rivers; modern day iraq |
feudalism | politicla system in which nobles or lords are granted land from the king in exchange for loyalty and military service |
hellenistic | blending of eastern and western cultures as a result of alexander the great's conquest |
hieroglyphics | system of writing of ancient egyptians used pictures |
mandate of heaven | the divine right to rule wiht the possibilty of losting that right due to poor conditions part of the dynastic cycle of chinese history |
middle kingdom | china's isolating geography created an ethocentric homogeneous society known as the middle kingdom or the center of the universe |
monotheistic | belief in one god |
neolithic | new stone age of 10,000 bce chracterized by the domestication of animals and farming settlements |
paleolithic | old stone age (3 million bce) characterized by nomadic wandering hunting and gathering |
patricians | aristocratic landowners of the early Roman republic |
plebeians | commons of the early Roman republic made up of farmers and artisans |
polis | city-state |
polytheistic | belief in many gods |
reincarnaton | belief that the soul is reborn again and again until reaching perfection belief in huinduism and buddhism |
torah | sacred scriptures of judaism |
vedas | collection of sacred writings of the aryans from when they first settled along the indus river |
Ziggurat | sumerian tiered pyramid used as a temple |
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