Question 1

Alexander the great

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Son of Phillip II. King of Macedonia in n. Greece (356-323BCE)he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities and spread Greek culture across the Middle East. He maintained the framework of Persian administration

Question 2

Aquaducts

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a conduit, either elevated or underground, that used gravity to carry water from a source to a location - usually a city - that needed it. The romans built many in a period of substantial urbanization. Romans pioneered the use of arches which allow even d

Question 3

"Backbone of the NIght"

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!Kung belief that the Milky Way holds up the night; that if it weren't for the Milky Way, fragments of darkness would come crashing down at our feet. These metaphors were eventually replaced by gods. They were given names and special responsibilities for

Question 4

Ban Chiang

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a small village on the Khorat Plateau in n. Thailand. By 2000 BC some people were making sophisticated objects in bronze, with near the optimum tin content of 10%. They showed an excellent knowledge of alloying, casting, annealing and working of bronze. b

Question 5

Charles Darwin

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young English naturalist (someone who studies natural history). He proposed that the great diversity of living species and the profound changes in them over time could be explained by evolution. He theorized that over long periods of time the changes brou

Question 6

City-State

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Evolving from villages, city-states are small independent states consisting of an urban center and the surrounding agricultural territory. These city-states allowed for residents to specialize in various crafts and administrative duties. It was a characte

Question 7

Cuneiform

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a system of writing in which wedge shaped symbols represented words or syllables. This was done by pressing a reed into a clay tablet. It originated in Meso. And was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languag

Question 8

Eratothenes

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3rd century BC, Alexandria, Egypt. An astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic, and mathematician, Erat. said the earth is a sphere by using stick and shadows. He then measured the diameter of the earth and was only 100 miles o

Question 9

Forum

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The most important public area in Roman Civilizations, it was paved and covered two blocks. The temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva was the most important temple. Also located in the forum was the rostrum (raised platform for speeches). The forum was su

Question 10

Hellienistic Age

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323-30 BCE. Greek culture spread across w. Asia and ne. Africa after the conquests of Alex the Great. This was a period of large kingdoms with heterogeneous population, great cities, powerful rulers, pervasive bureaucracies, and vast disparities in wealt

Question 11

Hoplites

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7th cent BCE the Greeks developed a new kind of warfare waged by hoplites. These were heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the close-packed phalanx form. Armies were militias composed of middle and upper cl

Question 12

Iceman

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discovered at the edge of a glacier in the European Alps (Italy) in 1991, the iceman provided historians a glimpse of the everyday technologies and diets during the 4th millenium BCE. The clothing, tools, and food in his stomach were preserved by the ice

Question 13

Minoan

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2000-1500 BCE Proseperous civilzation on the Aegean Island of Crete in the second milennium BCE. The Minoans engaged in far-flung commerce around the Med. Sea and exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks. It was the first European civiliz

Question 14

Neander Valley

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the location in Germany where, in 1856, laborers discovered fossilized bones of a creature with a body like a modern human but a face like an ape's. "Neanderthals" were a type of human common in Europe some 40,000 years ago. Three years later, Charles Da

Question 15

Patricians & Plebians

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The inequalities in Roman society led to periodic confiict b/w patricians (elite) and plebians (majority of popu), a struggle known as the Conflict of Orders. Because of conflicts the laws were published on stone tablets ca. 450BCE, which served as a che

Question 16

Patron/client

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In ancient Rome, a fundamental social relationship in which the patron - a wealthy and powerful individual - provided a legal and economic protection and assistance to clients, men of lesser status and means, and in return the clients supported the polit

Question 17

Peloponnesian War

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431-404 BCE. Conflict b/w Athenian and Spartan alliance sys. that convulsed most of the Greek world. The war was largely a consequence of Athenian imperialism. Possession of a naval empire allowed Athens to fight war of attrition. Ultimately, Sparta won

Question 18

Trireme

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Greek and Phoenician warship (not good sea boats/merchant ships) of the 5th& 4th century BCE. It was sleek and light, pwr'd by 170 oarmen arranged in 3 tiers. Manned by skilled sailors, it was capable of short bursts of speed and complex maneuvers. The t

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