TPS HISTORY 9 STUDY GUIDE(ONLY PART WAY DONE)
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Prehistory
- long period of time before invented systems of writing
- Radiocarbon Dating
- method used to figure out the age of an artifact
- Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
- time when nomads began to farm
- Artifact
- object made by human being
- Archeologist
- person who studies past people and cultures
- Latitude
- measures distance north and south of the equator
- Scribe
- specially trained people who could read and write
- Anthropology
-
study of the origins and development of people and their
societies - Hyksos
- invaders who occupied the delta region
- Akhenaton
- religious rebel who tried to make Aton the main god
- Sumerians
- people who lived in the ancient region of Sumer
- Nebuchadnezzar
-
aggressive and ruthless king who revived the power of
Babylon - inundation
- Massive expected flood
- Hittites
-
iron workers who pushed out of Asia Minor into Mesopotamia in
1400b.c. - Ramses II
-
most powerful pharaoh in the new kingdom who pushed Egyptian rule
notherward as far as Syria - Ahriman
- prince of lies and evil
- Mohenjo-Daro
- capital of Indus Valley civilization
- Aryans
- group of Indo-European people who migrated across Europe and Asia
- Vedas
- sacred text to the Hindus
- Indus River Valley
- valley on Indus River in current day Paleistan
- Brahmin
- highest seat in the priest class system
- Brahman
- unchanging, all-powerful spiritual force
- Laozi
- founder of Daoism
- Yin & Yang
- forces that made a delicate balance in the universe
- Animism
-
belief that the world was full of spirits and forces hidden in
animals - Rama
- daring hero who rescues his wife from Ravana with the help of Hanvmann
- Sita
- beautiful wife of Rama who models as the perfect wife
- Moshka
- union with brahman
- Mandate of Heaven
- divine right to rule
- Feudalism
-
- system of gov't in which local lords governed their own lands but
owed military service and other forms of support to their ruler - Shang
- dynasty that gained control of China in about 1600b.c.
- The Way of Virtue
-
book, written by Laozi, that had a huge influence on
Chinese life - Karma
-
all actions of a person's life that affect his or her fate in the
next life - Dharma
- an individuals religious and moral duties
- Five Relationships:
-
- Father to son
- Brother to brother
- Husband to wife
- Ruler to subject
- Friend to friend - Hatshepsut
- a woman who exercised all the rights of a pharaoh