World History Midterm 2
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- Trojan War
- war betwen troy
- Dorians
- settle in greece after mycenaeans bronze age
- Mycenaeans
- Settled on greek mainland 2,000 BC
- Socrates
- Greeks should question
- Philip 11
- king of macedonia
- Plato
- The Republic
- Aristotle
- scientific method
- Demonsthenes
- orator warn macedonia
- darius 111
- king of persia alexander defeated him
- city in egypt at nile river
- Alexandria
- Alexander the great
- son of philip conquers persian empire
- Hellenistic
- greek culture blended egyptian persian indian
- macedonia
- kingdom north of greece cold
- Hatshepsut
- ruler during new kingdom declared pharoah herself
- Thutmose 111
- murdered stepmom hatshepsut rules
- ramses 11
- pharaoh of new kingdom built temples
- piankhi
- kushite king conquered egypt
- hyksos
- nomadic invaders reuled egypt
- kush
- nubian kingdoim emerges regional power
- meroe
- kushite city trade center
- nineveh
- assyria's capital
- Assyria
- northern part of mesopotamia
- New Kingdom
- starts when the egyptians overthrow the hyksos
- Chaldeans
- They united with the Medes to defeat the Assyrians and made babylon their capital
- Satraps
- Governors who ruled province under Darius' reign
- Cyrus
- Persian king who started to conquer kingdoms in what is now Iran in 550 BC takes over fertile cresent
- Yin and Yang
- Two powers that represent the natural rhythms of life
- Daoism
- Phiosophy in 6th century BC that stressed a search for knowledge and understanding on nature
- Hittites
- indo-european people occupied Anatolia
- Aryans
- Indo-europeans crossed mountains and entered indus valley
- Phoenicians
- powerful trading civilization on Mediterranean
- Minoans
- seafaring people, dominated trade from Crete
- INdo-europeans
- Group of seminomadic people came from grasslands north of caucasus mts.
- Nirvana
- buddhas word 4 release from pain and selfishness
- caste
- social groupings of the aryans in india
- torah
- the first five books of the hebrew bible
- karma
- good or bad deeds, influenced one's life
- brahmin
- priest in aryan society
- Jainism
- Religion founded by Mahavira, everything in universe has soul
- Vedas
- Sacred literature of Aryans
- Israel
- Kingdom of hebrews, led by saul then david and solomon
- Anatolia
- huge peninsula , now Turkey
- Canaan
- area of palestine that is ancient home of Hebrews
- Silt
- thick bed of mud from floods
- Loess
- Yellowish silt in China
- Fertile Crescent
- curved shaped land area between persian gulf and medditerranean sea
- delta
- marshy triangular area of land
- irrigation
- ditches that carry water to farm fields
- city-state
- city and surounding land it controlls
- theocracy
- gov. with ruler as a divine figure
- dynasty
- series of rulers from a single family
- polytheisim
- belief in many gods
- empire
- several peoples nations or states under control of ruler
- cultural diffusion
- The process of a new idea or product spreading from one cultre to another
- Menes
- strong willed king of upper egypt, united all egypte
- hammurabi
- Ruler of Babylonian empire who codifid laws
- mandate of heaven
- justification that the chinese rulers authority came fromm heaven
- mummification
- egyptain practice of embalming corpse
- Culture
- a people's unique way of life
- artisans
- skilled workers who made goods by hand
- domestication
- taming of animals
- artifacts
- remains such as tools, jewelry, handmade objects
- barter
- trading goods and services w/ out money
- hominid
- humans and other walking upright creatures
- scribe
- professional record keepers
- nomads
- wanderers
- institution
- long-lasting pattern of organization in a community
- specialization
- skills in a specific kind of work
- cuneiform
- a wedge shaped system of writing
- paleolithis age
- the old stone age was
- the neolithic age
- the new stone age was
- neolithic revolution
- the agricultural revolution is also known as the
- bronze age
- a historical age that started in sumer around 3000 bc was the
- Jesus
- born in Bethlehem in Judea started a public ministry at the age of 30
- Constanie
- Roman emperor who announced the end of Christian persecution in the Roman Empire
- Paul
- apostle who influence Christianity's development wrote epistles
- Perter
- first apostle led others in spreading the teachings
- Diocletian
- army leader and emperor. gave limited freedom and workers had jobs for life
- Mercenary
- foreighn soldiers who fought for money
- inflation
- a drastic drop in the value of money
- attila
- leader of the huns
- alaric
- leader of the visigoths
- aqueducts
- deisgned by engineers to bring water to cites and towns