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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| empire | A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler |
| trade networks | A variety of roads, and harbors that connect all of your cities together |
| city-state | A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside: it has its own identity and is not controlled by a larger group |
| bureaucracy | A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
| alliance | when smaller groups band together for a common purpose |
| conquest | Capture or taking of something by military force |
| autocracy | A system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual |
| theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders |
| human resources | people who provide labor, knowledge, and skills |
| natural resources | Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain |
| Cyrus | Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name |
| Persia | This was the largest empire in the world (until Alexander the Great took over over and expanded) |
| Divine Augustus | title given to one of the emperors of Rome |
| limited democracy | government that includes voting but does not allow everyone to vote |
| republic | A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting |
| Delian League | League of united Greek city-states led by Athens and their powerful navy |
| polis | |
| indirect democracy | |
| aristocrat | |
| power | |
| authority | |
| direct democracy | |
| emperor | |
| patrician | |
| slave | |
| ways to become a slave | |
| artisan | |
| domestic servants | |
| Middle East | |
| reincarnation | |
| India | |
| monotheistic | |
| polytheistic | |
| sacred | |
| secular | |
| missionary | |
| diaspora | |
| power | |
| authority | |
| religion | |
| nomadic | |
| pastoral nomads | |
| Great Arid Zone | |
| steppes | |
| Bronze Age | |
| cultural diffusion | |
| chariot | |
| metallurgy | |
| technology | |
| bronze | |
| textile | |
| social hierarchy | |
| intensification | |
| cuneiform | |
| scribe | |
| laws | |
| centralized authority | |
| laborer | |
| polytheistic | |
| elite | |
| cuneiform | |
| hieroglyphics | |
| intensification | |
| laws | |
| scribe (Ancient Egypt) | |
| intensification | |
| Mesopotamia/Sumer | |
| Nile River | |
| Indus River | |
| Yellow River | |
| civilization/complex society | |
| specialization | |
| river valley civilizations | |
| geographic luck | |
| Era 2 | |
| 3 factors that led to the development of civilization | |
| corn | |
| cattle and millet | |
| fish | |
| tribute | |
| wars and decline of empires | |
| roads |
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