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- Pantheon
- This is Romes most famous domed structure, a temple to all the Roman gods (it still stand today).
- mosaic
- A picture made from chips of colored stone or glass( this is in conjuction with Roman Art-- Romans beutified their homes(Pompii- city burried by volcanoe).
- Mandate of Heaven
- the belief that Chinese rulers had the gods' approval to rule
- Who studies history?
- Historian
- Hammurabi's Code
- first set of written laws, consistent but not equal
- civilization
- a complex highly organized social order
- Monotheism
- belief in only one god
- caste system
- rigid class structure in India, aperson is born into a class and cant move out of it or marry someone from a different caste,must wait for reincarnation
- confusion
- philospher who belived social order
- Reincarnation
- process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- artisans
- skilled craftworkers
- history
- study of what was and how people lived in the past
- Galon
- A greek doctor- he advanced the frontiers of medical science by insisting on experiments to prove a conclusion. He also compiled a medical enclopedia that remained in its standard text for 1,000.
- monsoons
- seasonal winds that control India's climate
- What do geographers study?
- where people live, why they live there, & how they live
- Old stone age (another name, lasted from when to when)
- Paleolithic, lasted from 2,000,000 b.c.e -> 10,00 b.c.e
- Greco-Roman Civilization
- The Romans first adsorbed ideas from the Greek colonists in S Italy, and even after Rome conquered Greece.This led to the blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman traditions known as the Greco-Roman Civilization.
- domestication
- the taming of animals for human use,such as work or as food
- Law of Nations
- The second system of laws that replaced the civil law ( bec it ruled out many foriegners) ;it aplied to all people under roman rule ( citizen or not). Eventualy these 2 systems merged when Rome expanded citizenship across the whole empire.
- Geography
- the study of earth, people, and their resources
- Livy (History)
- A Rome historian who sought to rouse patriatic feeling& restore Traditional virtues of the Romans by recalling the heroic images of Romes past( gr8t heroes as Horatius, and Cincinnatus).
- parts of a civilization
- cites, complex religions, art and architecture, social classes, organized government, written language, public works, job specialization
- siddhartha gautama
- the founder of buddhism, the buddha
- Engineering
- The application of science and mathamatics to develope useful structures & machines.(ROman Engineering built harbors, roads, bridges and aqueducts thoughtout the Roman Empire).
- Aqueduct
- Are bridgelike stone structures that brought water from the hills into the Roman cities.
- satirize
- To make fun of- The roman poets satirised the Roman Society.
- Pax Romana
- golden age of Rome
- cultural diffusion
- the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from 1 person to the next
- Dynasty
- a series of rulers from a single family, especially in China and Japan
- steppe
- less fertile lands or sparse dry grasslands
- City-State
- a city and its surrounding lands that act as a government
- cataract
- waterfall
- What do archeologists study?
- artifacts, tools, weapons, clothing, and pottery
- delta
- a triangular area of marshland formed, Triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers
- Archeology
- study of early people by examing artifacts
- vizier
- cheif minister
- empire
- a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
- Another name for new stone age
- Neolithic
- Silk Roads/Routes
- trade routes from China through Asia, India, Europe
- 2 types of location
- 1-exact location; longitude & latitude 2- relative location; in relation to
- karma
- in hinduism and buddhism,the total of the good or bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determined how he/she is reborn
- silt
- soil
- Geography is studied by.........?
- geographers
- Virgil (Poetry)
- Wrote an epic poem called the AENEID; it potrays Romes past as a heroic one just as that of the Greeks. This poem was written after Augustus came into power.His hope was that it would arouse patriotism & help unite Rome after yrs of civil war.
- city-state
- a political unit that included a city and its surroundings
- pharoah
- egyptian ruler
- pictograms
- simple drawings
- Civil Law
- During the republic this system of law applied to Roman citizens.
- What do historians study?
- artifacts, written documents, photographs, they look for PRIMARY RESOURCES- most reliable
- Torah
- holy book of judaism
- untouchables
- lowest class people in the caste system
- scribes
- specially trained people who learned to read and write
- Who studies archeology?
- archeologists
- golden age
- period of prosperity, peace, and cultural growth
- mandate of heaven
- in chineese history,the belief the ruler had gods approval to rule