history midterms 2
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- monopoly
- complete control of a product or business by one person or group
- patriarchal
- headed by the father or oldest male
- philiopiety
- respect for parents
- monarchy
- government in which a king or queen excersizes central power
- straight
- narrow water passage
- aristocrasy
- rule by landholding elite
- rhetoric
- art of skillful speaking
- solon
- leader of athenswho introduced social, political, and economic reforms
- homer
- blind poet who credited with creating the Illiad and the Odyssey
- golden age of pericles
- states man who established direct democracy in athens
- socrates
- philosopher who examined beliefs and ideas through critical questioning
- hippocrates
- physician whose oath set ethical standards for doctors
- herodesis
- historian who wrote about the persian wars
- aristotle
- philosopher who taght that good conduct meant following a moderate course between extremes
- sophocles
- playwrite who wrote about the Persian Wars
- mathematician who derived a formula to calculate the relationship between sides of a right triangle
- pythagoras
- scientist who applied principles of physics to make practical inventions
- archimedes
- leader of carthaginean army who crossed the alps to invade Italy
- Hannibal
- general who brought Gaul under Roman control
- Suzy
- first ruler of the Roman Empire
- Augustus
- author of the Roman epic poim, the Aneid
- Virgil
- astronomer who theorized that the Earth was the center of the universe
- Ptolemy
- Anointed king sent by God
- messian
- member of the roman landholding upper class
- patrician
- roman farmer, merchant, artisan, or trader
- plebians
- person who suffers or dies for his or her beliefs
- martyr
- foreign soldier who serves for pay
- marcinary
- a belief that is contrary to official church teachings
- herecy
- basic unit of the roman army
- legion
- bridge-like stone structure that broght waterfrom the hills to cities
- aqueduct
- church official responsible for all christians in an area
- jesus
- person who moves from place to place in search of food
- nomad
- the study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them
- geography
- objects made by people
- artifacts
- the earliest period of human history
- old stone age
- the spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one person to another
- culture
- skilled craftworkers, made pottery or finely carved or woven goods
- artisans
- the study of the ways of life of early people through the examination of their artifacts
- anthropology
- the skills and tools people ise to meet their basic needs
- technology
- when people gave up the nomadic life and settled down to farm
- new stone age
- belief in many gods
- polytheistic
- a pyramid shaped temple built by the sumerians
- Ziggurat
- triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- delta
- the preservation of the dead
- mummification
- governer of a province of the Persian empire
- satrap
- a belief in one god
- monotheistic
- pharaoh who spread Egyptian rule northward to Syria and conquered nubia
- Ramses II
- egyptian queen who encouraged trade with lands along the eastern Mediterranean
- hatchepsut
- ruler who published a code of laws to help unite Babylonia
- Hammerabi
- king who encouraged Babylonian learning
- Nebakenezer
- ruler who united the persian empire
- Darius
- fine, windblown yellow soil
- loess
- a seasonal wind
- monsoon
- social group into which people are born and from which the cannot change
- caste
- aryan tribal chief
- ancestor
- a group of families who claim a common ancestor
- clan
- a sign that expresses a thought or idea
- ideograph
- a single spiritual power that resides in all things
- brahman
- someone who devotes his or her life to seeking the truth
- mystic
- an artistic form of handwriting done with ink and a brush
- calligraphy
- the rise and fall of dynasties
- dynastic
- emperor who China
- shiwangdi
- hindu god known as the creator
- brahma
- founder of buddhism
- Sidhartha Gattama
- maurya emperor who converted to Buddhism
- Asoka
- philosopher whose ideas helped shape chinese civilization
- Confusious