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final review
review vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5 Themes of Geography | location, place, region,human-environmental interaction, movement, |
| historian | writes down the past |
| geographer | maps out the past |
| archeologist | digs-up the past |
| geography | the study of the earth's environment and how it shapes people's lives |
| social scientist | detectives of the past |
| artifact | an object made by someone in the past |
| carbon-14 dating | a scientific method of dating an object |
| primary source | a first hand account of an event or artifact created during the time under study |
| secondary source | a record of the past based on a primary source |
| oral tradition | a way of passing down culture and information by word of mouth |
| prehistoric | before written times |
| absolute location | a specific area, using longitude and latitude |
| relative location | an area using cardinal and intermediate directions |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, west |
| intermediate directions | northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest |
| silt | fertile soil deposited by a river |
| cuneiform | first form of writing - Mesopotamia |
| ziggurat | religious building in Mesopotamia stairs to heaven |
| technology | the use of skills and tools to meet practical human needs |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Fertile Crescent | named because of its shape and the fertile soil it gave to its people |
| Zagros Foothills (Mountains) | became very crowded and forced people to move by the Tigris and Euphrates River |
| food shortage | not having enough food to survive |
| characteristics of a civilization | religion, writing, stable food supply(job specialization),technology, arts, government,social structure,cities,public works |
| irrigation system | a system of carrying water from one area to another |
| canals, levees, dams, reservoirs | methods of irrigation systems |
| Hammurabi-Code of Laws | first laws that were ever written down |
| Nile River | Located in Egypt over 4,000 miles long. Empties into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Indus River | provides fertile silt to the Indus Plain in India |
| delta | a fan-shaped land made of silt at the mouth of a river |
| Neolithic | had domestication and a stable food supply and stone tools |
| Paleolithic | used the first stone tools |
| Black Plague | disease that took over 25 million lives during the Middle ages. Spread by rats and fleas |
| mosque | Islamic place of worship |
| Charlemagne | emperor of the Franks |
| Allah | Islamic word for God |
| Why did Rome fall? | Too much land, disease,no control, invaders |
| large estate during Middle Ages | manor |
| serf | bound to a manor and worked the land |
| feudalism | a organized society of loyalty and land |
| cathedral | large ornate church built began building during the Middle Ages |
| prophet | person who speaks with God |
| Code of Hammurabi | first written down laws |
| Twelve Tables | laws written down in Roman Republic |
| monarchy | one ruler whose power in inherited |
| tyranny | one ruler who is powered by the military |
| oligarchy | government that is run by a few wealthy |
| democracy | government where decisions are made by the people |
| political map | map that shows the countries and boundaries |
| polis | a city-state in Ancient Greece |
| agora | marketplace-the center of the polis |
| Patrician | In the Roman Republic a rich man who held power |
| Plebeian | In the Roman Republic a person who had no say in government in the beginning. Not wealthy |
| archeologist | an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind |
| republic | a form of government with elected leaders-began in Ancient Rome |
| citizen | a member of a democracy who has certain rights and responsibilities |
| government | the people or group that rule a particular region |
| legacy | a contribution of a culture or civilization |
| reincarnation | the belief that when you die you come back to life in another form |
| dharma | your duty |
| karma | good or bad deeds |
| BC | Before Christ |
| BCE | Before Common Era |
| CE | Common Era |
| Caste System | Hindu belief about social structure |
| 5 pillars | charity, prayer,belief in one god,fasting,pilgrimage |
| What connected China with the rest of the world? | Silk Roads |
| 10 Commandments | rules given to Moses |
| Monotheistic | belief in one god |
| polytheistic | belief in many gods |
| Which religions are examples of monotheistic | Judaism,Christianity,Islam |
| Who was polytheistic? | Greeks, Romans(in the beginning),Mesopotamians,Hindus |
| Why does someone live near a river? | To use it for food, transportation,daily living,crops |
| What lead to the beginning of the Byzantium Empire | The fall of the Roman Empire |
| How did Diocletian try to save Rome | Divided it in two |
| What was Athens called at its height? | Golden Age |
| What was Rome called during its time of greatest peace? | Pax Romana |
| A.D. | Anno Domini |
| What did King John sign to stay in power | Magna Carta |
| Which leader never lost a battle | Alexander the Great |
| How did Alexander The Great show his love of everything Greek? | Spread Hellenism |
| Who was a dictator of Rome | Julius Caesar |
| What types of government did Rome have | Republic, Empire |
| What took us from the Paleolithic Era to the Neolithic Era | Agricultural Revolution |
| How did we learn to read Hieroglyphics | Rosetta Stone |
| Upper class in Rome | Patrician |
| Lower class in Rome | Plebian |
| Upper class in Greece | aristocrats |
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