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22 Cards in this Set
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Indo-Europeans |
A group of people who traveled around 500 B.C |
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Hittites |
A smaller group of the Indo-Europeans |
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Aryans |
A group of Indo-Europeans who began to migrate into the Indian subcontinent. |
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Hellenistic Culture |
4 social classes of the Aryans |
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Patrician |
Good and bad deeds done by a person determines his fate. |
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Plebian |
A religion founded on the belief that everything has a soul and should not be harmed. |
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Consul |
A governor of a province in the Persian Empire. |
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Senate |
A road in the Persian Empire that stretched over 1,600 miles. |
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Castes |
A city that acts like an independent country. |
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Karma |
A government in which the power is in the hands of the heredity class. |
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Jainism |
A government in which power is in the hands of a few people, usually the wealthy. |
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Satrap |
A government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives. |
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Royal Road |
A government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. |
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City-State |
A type of representative democracy that has limited government that is adopted by the people and divided between 3 separate branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. |
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Aristocracy |
Indo-Europeans who settled on the Greek Mainland. |
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Hellenistic Culture |
Greek Culture blended with the nearby cultures of Egyptians, Persians, and Indians in part due to Alexander the Great's military and government policies. |
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Patrician |
A member of the wealthy, privileged upper class in Rome. |
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Plebian |
One of the common farmers, artists, merchants, (everyone but the wealthy). |
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Consul |
In the Roman Republic, 1 of the 2 powerful officials elected each year to command the army and direct the government. |
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Senate |
The Supreme governing body originally made up only of Aristocrats. |
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Assimilation |
The adoption/enforcement of a conqueror's culture |
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Multiculturalism |
Preservation of different cultures within a unified society. |
