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World history examm
Wordsss and definitonnsss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | a city-state of ancient Greece |
| acropolis | a walled, high area surrounding a polis |
| agora | an open area that served as a meeting place and market in early Greek city-states |
| helots | in ancient Greece, state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers in ancient Greece |
| hubris | great pride |
| tyrant | a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| archon | a chief of state of ancient Athens |
| phalanx | a military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears |
| patricians | a class of powerful landowners in ancient Rome who controlled the government and society |
| plebeians | farmers or workers, who made up a large part of the population in ancient Rome |
| consuls | the chief executives elected to run the government in ancient Rome |
| martyrs | people put to death for their beliefs |
| eucharist | a ceremony of some Christian denominations that commemorates Jesus' last supper with his disciples |
| legalism | a Chinese political philosophy that holds that the most effective government is that which rules the people by a harsh set of laws |
| civil service | a centralized administrative system that runs the day-to-day business of government |
| bedouins | small groups of nomadic people in Arabia |
| hegira | Mohammad's journey from Mecca to Medina |
| astrolabe | an instrument for determining the positions and movements of heavenly bodies |
| minarets | towers attached to the outside of a mosque |
| mosaics | images created with tiny bits of colored tile fitted together and cemented into place |
| icon | a painting or carving of Jesus |
| monasticism | voluntary separation from society, usually in monasteries, to dedicate one's life to God; prevalent in the midlle ages |
| abbot | the elected head of a monastery |
| sagas | long stories written in the early 1200s |
| navigation | the guidance of ships from place to place |
| crusades | a series of wars carried out by European Christians to gain control of the Holy Land from their Muslim rulers |
| credit | an arrangement by which a purchaser borrows money from a bank or other lender and agrees to pay it back over time |
| guilds | associations of people who worked at the same craft or trade during the Middle Ages |
| illumination | the process of decorating a written manuscript with pictures or designs |
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