World History exam review
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- __________ is the study of the ways of life of early people through the examintaion of their artifacts.
- Archaeology
- ________ is the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs.
- Technology
- The _________ is the earliest period of human history.
- Old stone age
- A________ movers from place to place following animals and ripening fruit.
- Nomad
- The_______ began when people gave up the nomadic life and settled down to farm.
- New stone age
- Ancient people are called _________ because they believed in many gods.
- Polytheistic
- ________, or skilled craftworkers, made pottery or finely carved or woven goods.
- Artisans
- The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies is called ____________.
- Cultural Diffusion
- Triangular are of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers.
- Delta
- The preservation of the dead
- Mummification
- A pyramid shaped temple built by the sumerians.
- Ziggurat
- Governor of a province of the Persian empire.
- Satrap
- Teaching a belief in one god
- monotheistic
- A__________ is a large landmass that juts out from a continent.
- Sub continent
- The single spiritual power that resides in all things is called a _________.
- Brahman
- A ___________ devotes his or her life to seeking spiritual truth.
- Mystic
- A _______ was the chief of an aryan tribe.
- Rajah
- The term for a sign that expresses a thought or an idea is __________.
- Ideograph
- ___________ is an artistic from of hadwriting done with ink and a brush.
- Calligraphy
- ___________ describes the rise and fall of dynasties.
- Dynastic Cycle.
- A system of government in which local lords goverened their own lands but owed militia service and other kinds of support to the ruler is called ___________.
- Feudalism
- Rebirth of the soul in another bodily form.
- Reincarnation
- Large dome shaped shrine that housed sacred remains
- stupa
- Headed by the father or oldest Male
- Patriarchal
- Respect for parents
- Fillial piety
- Complete control of a product or business by one person or group.
- Monopoly
- Hindu Destroyer God.
- Shiva
- The founder Of Buddhism
- Siddartha Guatama
- Ruler who established the first great Indian empire.
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Maurya emperor who paved the way for the spread of Buddhism through out Asia.
- Asoka
- Chinese philosopher who believed that people were naturallly good.
- Confucius
- Emperor who united china, built the great wall, lowered taxes and improved the economy.
- Shi Huangdi
- Emperor and founder of the Han dynasty
- Li Bang
- Chinese Philoshopher who taught that " the nature of man is evil".
- Hanfeizi
- The worlds largest desert is called_______.
- The Sahara
- Ancient Kingdom located on the fertile land of the upper Nile.
- Nubia
- Kingdom of the Soninke people located between the Niger and the Senegal rivers.
- Ghana
- Center of trade and learning in Mali.
- Timbuktu
- Christian kingdom in the mountains of East africa
- Ethiopia
- Capital of inland empire whose name means "great stone buildings"
- Great Zimbabwe
- Grassy plains in Africa
- The Savana
- Process by which a desert spreads
- desertification
- The Term for the KIng of Mali
- Mansa
- Group of households who claim and common ancestor
- Lineage
- Professional poet who preserved traditional West African Stories.
- Griot
- Nubian King who conwuered Egypt.
- Piankhi
- Founder of the Mali empire
- Sundiata
- Soldier king who made Songhai the largest kingdom in West Africa.
- Sonnia Ali
- Multistoried temple with eaves that turn up at the corners.
- Pagoda
- Alphabet made up of symbols representing the sounds of spoken KOREAN
- Hangul
- Chain of islands.
- Archipelago
- Supremem military commander in Japan
- Shogun
- Three line poen consisting of 17 syllables.
- Haiku
- Tang ruler who became the most admired of all chinese emperors.
- Tang Taizong
- Korean ruler who replaced the chinese writing system with a korean alphabet.
- Sejong
- Heian writer who created The Tale of the Genji
- Muasaki Shikibu
- Japanese military commmander who set up the kamakura shogunate
- Minamoto Yoritomo
- Tang empress who restored a system of uniform goeverntment to china.
- Wu Zhao
- Mongol emperor who established the Yuan dynasty
- Kublai Khan
- Tang poet whose works celebrated harmony with nature
- Li Bo
- Chinese admiral who explored South Asia and East Africa
- Zheng He
- Korean general who set up the Choson Dynasty
- Yi Song gye
- Japenese prince who sent nobles to study in China
- Shotoku
- Daimyo who founded a shogunate that imposed central government control on all of Japan.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu