History exam def
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- Speicalization
- Development of occupations
- Neolithic
- (New Stone Age) when people changed from food gatherers to food producers
- Empire
- Territories governed by a single ruler or nationvv
- Immortals
- The best fighters in the Persian army. They earned this name because their number never fell below 10.000. When an Immortal becamse sick, was wounded, or died, another soldier took his place. The Immortals had the honor of leading the Persian army into battle.
- . Aristocrats
- Members of the Upper class
- . Murex
- purple dye made by the Phoenicians
- City-state Cities and the surrounding territories
- Cities and the surrounding territories
- . Agora
- Ancient Greek marketplace
- Hieroglyphics
- Egyptian writing system based on pictures
- Delta
- Shortly before the Nile reaches the sea, it branches to form a fan-shaped area of fertile Land
- Maize
- Corn - one of the first crops gown in the Americas and allowed for later cultural
- Litter
- a carriage without wheels that was carried by servants. Common in Persia.
- Ashurbanipal
- A great Assyrian king, who started one of the world's first libraries.
- Domestication
- Taming (In the Neolithic Age animals became domesticated)
- Pyramids
- Large Eqyptian tombs