Ancient World History
Beginning vocabulary
Terms
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- temple
- a place in which to honor gods
- economy
- having to do with money or resources
- secondary source
- a second hand account of an event
- history
- written record of past events
- foreign
- not native, from another country
- symbol
- something that stands for something else
- geography
- the study of the earth and its features, including human activity
- culture
- customs, ideas and way of life of a group of people
- tyrant
- a leader who rules by force and not by law
- missionary
- a person who is sent to teach and spread a particular religion
- autocracy
- a government in which one person has umlimited authority
- heritage
- something that is passed down from previous generations
- massacre
- murder, usually with extreme cruelty, often of unarmed people
- artisan
- a person who makes useful, often beautiful, objects for every day use
- classical
- in the style of Rome or Greece
- fertile
- productive, often referring to soil
- generation
- group of individuals born at the same time
- peasant
- a small farmer of low social rank
- civilization
- a people who have cities and a government; a large group of people with a high level of development
- famine
- extreme, long-term hunger
- merchant
- a trader, a person who buys and sells for profit
- caravan
- a group of traders traveling together, usually across the desert
- secular
- non-religious, worldly
- drought
- a long period of dry weather
- clergy
- the people who lead a religion
- code
- a group of laws
- dictator
- a person who rules a country with force and makes all the laws
- political
- having to do with government
- habitat
- the natural environment of a person, plant, or animal
- inherit
- obtain from someone after his/her death
- barter
- to trade goods or services without using money
- decade
- a period of 10 years
- monotheism
- the belief in one God
- tradition
- a custom, idea or belief handed down from one person to the next
- primary source
- first hand account of an event
- government
- rule
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- eternal
- lasting forever
- surplus
- extra of anything
- ancestor
- people who come before us
- covenant
- a promise or agreement, usually in a religious sense
- ancient
- occurring before 500 AD
- evidence
- proof, that which tends to prove or disprove something. Facts and information
- century
- 100 year period of time
- religion
- a belief in God or gods
- reign
- period of rule
- divine
- having to do with the gods or with God
- artifact
- an object made by a person
- republic
- system of government in which citizens who have the right to vote choose their leaders
- empire
- a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, usually larger than a kingdom
- city-state
- a city surrounded by villages on the adjacent land, having its own government