Ancient Civ

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Ch.1 Culture

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way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience

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Geography

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Study of people, their environments, adn the recources available to them

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Prehistory

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Time before people invented writing

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Anthropology

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Study of origins and development of people and their societies

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Archaeology

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Study of past people and cultures

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Technology

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skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs

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Nomad

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moving from place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruit

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Animism

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Belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams.

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Domesticate

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Tame

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Civilization

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Complex, highly organized social order

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Polytheistic

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Belief in many gods

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Artisians

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Skilled craftworkers

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Pictograms

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Simple Drawings that looked like the objects they represented

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City-State

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political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages

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Empire

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group of ststes or territories controlled by one ruler

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Steppes

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less-fertile lands or on sparse, dry grasslands

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Cultural Diffusion

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Spread of Ideas

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Ch.2 Cataract

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waterfall

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Delta

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triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt(soil) at the mouth of some rivers

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Dynasty

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Ruling family

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Pharoah

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egyptian rulers

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vizier

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chief minister

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heiroglyphics

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form of picture writing used to keep important records

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Ideograms

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pictures that symbolized and idea or action

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demotic

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form of writing for everyday use

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Hierarchy

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system of ranks

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Ziggurat

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Pyramid-temple that soared tward the heavens

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Codify

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arrange and set down in writing

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Criminal/ Civil

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Murders, robbery, assault / private rights and matters, such as buisness contracts, property inheritance, taxes, etc.

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Satrap

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province

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Barter / money economy

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exchanging one set of goods and services for another / Goods and services are paid for through the echange of some token of an agreed value, such as a coin or bill

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Colony

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territory settled and ruled by people from another land.

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Monotheistic

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believing in one true god

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Covenent

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Binding agreeement

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Patriarchal

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Fathers and husbands held great legal and moral authority

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Sabbath

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Holy day for rest and worship

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Prophets

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warned that failure to obey God's law would lead their people to disaster

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Ethics

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Moral standards of behavior

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Diaspora

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Scattering of people

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Ch.5 Polis

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Unique version of the city-state evolved by the Greeks

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Acropolis

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high city, with great marble temples dedicated to the Gods

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Monarchy

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govt in wich a queen or king exercises central power

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Aristocracy

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Rule by landholding elite

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Oligarchy

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Power is in the hands of a small, powerfull elite, usually from the buisness class

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Helots

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conquored people that turned into slaves

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Tyrants

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people who gained power by force

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Direct Dimocracy

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Large number of citizens take direct part in the day to day affairs of the government

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Stipend

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fixed salary

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Jury

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panel of citizens that make the final judgement in a trial

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ostracism

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Ability to vote to banish a public figure whom they saw as a threat to their democracy.

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Rhetoric

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art of skillful speaking

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Assimilate

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absorb

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Heliocentric

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Sun-centered

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Ch.6 Republic

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"THing of the people"

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Patrician

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Members of the landholding upper class

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Consuls

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Each year, the senators elected from the patrician class two consuls

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Plebeian

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Farmers, merchants, artisians, and traders (made up most of pop.)

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Tribunes

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Plebians elected their own officials called tribunes to protect their interests.

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Legion

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Basic military unit

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Imperialism

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establishing control over foreign lands and peoples

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Provinces

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Lands under Roman rule

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Latfundia

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huge estates

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Census

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Pop. Count

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Satrize

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Make fun of

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Mosaic

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Picture made from chips of colored stone or glass

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engineering

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application of science and math to develop useful structures and machines

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Aqueducts

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bridgelike stone structures that brought water from the hills into Roman Cities