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World History I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them | geography |
| The study of the ways of life of early people through the examination of their physical remains | archaelogy |
| Objects made by people | artifacts |
| The earliest period of human history | Old Stone Age |
| Person who moves from place to place in search of food | nomad |
| A huge sheet of ice | glacier |
| A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding land | city-state |
| The spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another | cultural diffusion |
| The skill and tools people use to meet their basic needs | technology |
| The _____ began when people gave up on nomadic life and settled down to farm | New Stone Age |
| Believing in many gods | polytheistic |
| Archaeologists refer to the time before the invention of writing systems as | prehistory |
| Triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of slit at the mouth of some rivers | delta |
| The preservation of the dead | mummification |
| People who invaded Egypt around 1700 B.C. | Hyksos |
| Expanded Egyptian rule in the rest of Middle East | Ramses II |
| Queen who declared herself pharaoh | Hatshepsut |
| The Pyramid Age is another name for | the Old Kingdom (Eygpt) |
| The need to keep records led to what in Egypt? | Hieroglyphics |
| Leader of Carthaginian army who crossed the Alps to invade Italy | Hannibal |
| General who brought Gaul under Roman control | Julius Caesar |
| First ruler of the Roman Empire | Augustus |
| Author of the epic poem "the Aeneid" | Ptolemy |
| People of the lower class (Rome) | Plebians |
| Site of Roman Chariot races | Circus Maxiumus |
| People of the upper class (Rome) | Patricians |
| name of Roman leaders | emporers |
| center of Mediterranean world | Italy |
| Proclaimed emperor by Pope Leo III | Charlemagne |
| Money for investment | capital |
| A peasant who was bound to the land | serf |
| Wordly | secular |
| A code of conduct adopted by knights in the Middle Ages | chivalry |
| Penalty for refusing to obey Church laws | excommunication |
| Tax the church required Christians payed | tithe |
| An estate granted to a vessal | fief |
| Written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town | charter |
| Trainee working to join a guild | apprentice |
| Narrow water passage | strait |
| Government in which a king or queen exercises central power | monarchy |
| Rule by a landholding elite | aristocracy |
| Government by the people | democracy |
| Art of skillful thinking | rhetoric |
| Blind poet credited with creating "the Iliad" and "the Odyssey" | Homer |
| Leader of Athens who introduced social, political, and economic reforms (Outlawed slavery and opened high office to more citizens) | Solon |
| Statesman who established direct democracy in Athens | Pericles |
| Philosopher who examined beliefs and ideas for through critical questioning | Socrates |
| Physician whose oath set ethical standards for doctors | Hippocrates |
| Mathematician who derived a formula to calculate the relationship between sides of a right angle | Pythagorus |
| Historian who wrote about the Persian Wars | Herodotus |
| Philosopher who taught that good conduct meant following a moderate course between extremes | Aristotle |
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