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world history review
early man, river valley civilizations, greece and islam review
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| artifact | an object from the past that is used for historical knowledge; evidence of earlier life |
| culture | what a society thinks is excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. |
| domesticate | to adapt so as to be used by and beneficial to human beings |
| fossil | any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a history |
| hominids | any of the modern or extinct primates that walk on two feet of the family Hominidae |
| mesolithic era | the era between Paleolithic an Neolithic; the middle; the transition to Neolithic |
| neolithic era | the New Stone Age; nomads settled down in permenant settlements; domestication of plants and animals |
| nomadic | always moving around; no permenant settlement; Paleolithic era |
| paleolithic era | the Old Stone Age; nomadic people hunted and gathered and did not settle |
| prehistory | before written records |
| Aryan | the invaders that came through the Kyber Pass to invade the first civilizations of the Indus River Valley |
| Babylon | famed for magnifiacence and culture; on Euphrates River; |
| Buddah | Siddhartha Gautama; founded the Buddhist religion |
| caste | a rigidly structured social system baes on occupation |
| cataract | a waterfall preventing travel up a river |
| city-state | a small, self-governing nation with bordering farmland |
| civilization | an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached |
| Confucious | Chinese philosopher; found confucianism whose main beleifs are respect elders, code of politness, emphasis on education, ancestor worship and that humans ar good not bad |
| delta | a nearly flat plain of rich deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river, sometimes triangular |
| dharma | in Buddhism, the right way to get good karma and reach nirvana |
| dynastic cycle | in chinese civilization the dynasty has the Mandate of Heaven until something goes wrong (ex: natural disaster or invasion) then a new person steps in and gains support and startes a new dynasty |
| dynasty | the ruling family during a certain time period |
| Fertrile Cresent | the fertile land from Mesopotamia to the east of the Mediterranean Sea down the Nile |
| filial piety | in COnfusianism, a love and respect for one's ancestors |
| Ganges | the river in India that was the second to be settled on |
| Great Silk Road | trading routes that stretched from China to Europe |
| Gupta Golden Age | the golden age of India under the Gupta dynasty, knowlege gained in the fields of medicine, science, and math |
| heiroglyphics | the writing form of the ancient Egyptians |
| Himalayas | the mountain range separating China from India |
| Hwang He | China's Sorrow, Yellow River, the main river in China, had a rich silt deposit |
| Indus | the main river valley civilization in India, home to the first cities |
| Karma | what one does to bring on good or bad results in reincarnation |
| Khyber Pass | the pass through th Hindu Kush that the Aryans took to invade Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa |
| Lao Tzu | Chinese philosopher that founded Toaism |
| Lower Egypt | the northern part of Egypt with a lower elevation |
| Mandate of Heaven | the "agreement" between the current dynasty and the Chinese gods allowing them to rule |
| memphis | a city in egypt |
| mesopotamia | the land containing Sumer between the Tigris and Euphrates |
| missionary | a person or group of people sent out to spread a religion to a new area |
| Mohejo-Daro | one of the first cities on the Indus River Valley; sudden disappearance |
| Harrappa | one of the first cities on the Indus River Valley; sudden disappearance |
| monsoons | annual winds around India that allowed trade to occur easilyf |
| Nile | the main river in the Nile River Valley Civilization; annual predictable flooding |
| nirvana | state of perfect happiness in the Buddhist religion |
| papyrus | a paper form made in Egypt from the plant papyrus |
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