History Exam
stuff you just might not remember!!
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- Philistines
- traders and shipbuilders
- Mayans
- came up with zero
- orator
- public speaker
- domus
- Roman house
- specialization
- development of occupation
- Edict of Milan
- made christianity legal
- triemes
- Greek warships
- Hannibal
- lead carthagenians over the alps w/ elephants, unable to capture Rome, so pillage country side for 15 yrs, battle of zama send him home, and they give up Spain
- Peisistratus
- divided large estates among farmers allowed non land owners to be citizens, and encouraged sculpture and other art
- Canaanites
- herders
- first specialized occupations
- potters, weavers, metal workers
- litter
- a vehicle carried by people or animals consisting of a bed or couch
- agora
- ancient Greek marketplace
- famous oracle
- Delphi
- tribunes
- Roman officials elected to protect lower class
- tenants
- people who live and work on someone else's land
- holy of holies
- sacred chambers in temples
- Pericles
- rebuilt palaces and temples, built Long walls and Parthenon
- libarary
- Ashurbanipal built 1st one
- koran
- muslim scriptures
- Solon
- set a limit on land ownership, assembly could pass laws, all debts were erased, & offered citizenship to non athenians
- murex
- purple dye from shellfish