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Social studies final
ss finals words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archaeologist | people who study how humans devolped and how they relate to on end other by study fossils, arfitfacts and human remains of past culture |
| Artifact | weapons and tools made by humans in the past |
| Nomad | A person who regularly moves from place to place hunters and gatheres |
| technology | tools and methods used to help human perfome tasks |
| primary sources | first hand peice of evidence from people who saw or experienced it |
| secondary sources | created after the events by people who played no part in them |
| analyze | to examine |
| interpret | to explain |
| credibility | truthfulness |
| point of view | a general attitude about people and life |
| bias | an unreasoned emotional judgment about people and events |
| agriculture | the growing of plants to be used for human use (farming) |
| specialization | the development of different kinds of jobs |
| civilization | characteristics of organized cities religion record keeping and specilaztion |
| irrigation | the watering of dry land by means of canals or pipes |
| code of law | a written set of government laws that apply to everyone under a government |
| Hammurabi | king of babylon created the oldest code of laws |
| Pharaoh | the title used by the rulers of ancient Egypt |
| Polytheism | the belief in many gods/goddesses |
| Niler river | the worlds longest river Egyptians settled along the Nile and formed a river vally |
| papyrus | a water plant made for making water grown on the Nile river |
| monotheism | the belief in one god |
| ten commandments | religious law |
| judaism | faith of the ancient israiltes first monthesisc religon |
| moonson | a strong wind that blows one direction in the winter and opposite in the summer brings heavy rains |
| Buddhism | religious law it is founded by Siddhartha Gautama |
| eightfold path | steps needed to be followed to eliminate suffering/evil |
| loess | a fine yellow soil that is carried by wind and rain it is a blessing because it is very fertile |
| Huang he river | also known as Chinas sorrow flooding killed crops/animals and destroyed villigass |
| silk road | trade route to exchange valube good and ideas |
| Shi huang di | centralized goverment single system of writing |
| islam | the religon of muslums based on the teachings of the prohept muhammad |
| citizens | a person with certain rights and responsabilties in her or shes country |
| city- state | a self-governing city often with surroding lands and villages |
| polis | a city state in ancient grece |
| Athens | capital of present day greece |
| democracy | a system of government in which citizens vote to make descians |
| Sparta | largest city state in Greece located in pelopnnesus |
| Golden age | a time period of peace economic growth culture expansion and achiment in agruculture |
| plebians | citizens in Rome (majority) of people farmers trader of craft worker |
| PATRICIANS | citizens in Rome members of noble families |
| republic | a form of government in which citizens elect reperstantives to speak or act for them power to veto developed in Rome |
| twelve tables | political laws written on bronze plaques and posted in cities forum |
| forum | a gravel clearing road in Rome were the twelve tables were posted |
| pax Romana | a period of peace and prosperity for the roamn empire that began with the rule of Augustus |
| Christianity | a religion bars on the teachings of Jesus recorded in the new testament monotheistic the belief in one God |
| the fall of the Roman empire | grew to large to govern efficiently plagues hit natural disasters Barbairian attacks |
| Justinian's code | justinian gathered all the law and has them placed in one book the laws were written in a similar language |
| the black plague/death | a terrible diseases that spread quickly throughout Europe in AD 1348 |
| manor | a large self suffcent system and the center of life for Europeans in the middle ages |
| crusades | holy battles fought between Christians and Muslims |
| feudalism | a system of government which was based on agreements between lords and vassels |
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