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World Cultures Top 100

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Anybody for buys and sells goods for a living

Merchant

Belief in only one God
Monotheism
Belief in many Gods     
Polytheism

Study of location, places, human environmental
interaction, movement and reason

Geography

Values, traditions, habits and skills a group of people share

Culture

Group of people who live and work together

Society

People’s practical and applied arts and sciences by which they make the things they need and want.     

Technology

People who dig up and unlock the mysteries of the past

Archaeologists
Skilled craftsman

Artisan

The adoption of one people of the ways of another

Cultural borrowing

Study of how people earn a living

Economics

Study of power and government

Politics

The world’s earliest civilization
Sumer
This is the Euphrates River are where Mesopotamian civilizations began.
Tigris & Euphrates River
Mesopotamian wedge-shaped writing
Cuneiform
Where the Assyrian and Babylonian empires were located

Fertile Crescent

Massive stepped brick temples of ancient Mesopotamia
Ziggurants
Great lawgiver of old Babylonian empire
Hammurabi
Makes life in Egypt possible
Nile River
Process that dried and preserved the bodies of the dead in preparation for the after life 
Mummification
Absolute rules of ancient Egypt who were worshipped as Gods 

Pharaohs

Ancient Egyptian pictographic writing
Hieroglyphics
Massive monuments that were raised to honor and protect early Egyptian rulers forever

Pyramids

Old Testament of the bible talks about the story of this culture.
Hebrews
A Jewish prophet Moses and Kings David & Solomon are among the most ancient heroes of this country.
Israel

These sailors, shipbuilders, purple dyers and founders of Carthage were the greatest traders in the Ancient Mediterranean Sea

Phoenicians

This Greek word for dictators today means rules who abuse the rights and liberties of their people

Tyrants

Ancient Iranian empire that once ruled the entire Middle East
Persia

Ancient Greek polis that trained the toughest and most fanatical soldiers 

Sparta
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle contributed to this field
Philosophy
Type of government by a few aristocrats
Oligarchy
Earliest sea-faring Greeks of Crete

Minoans

Type of government by the people
Democracy
Type of government by Kings and Queens
Monarchy

The rugged landscape of Greece contributed to the development of these small separate countries

City-State

His soldiers spread Greek ways as far as Egypt and India During the Hellenistic times            &n

Alexander

Ancient Greek polis that had the greatest sculptors, architects and fleets of rams.    

Athens

Comic and tragic entertainments began as festivals in honor of Dionysus

Stage Plays

Archimedes, Pythagoras, and Ptolemy contributed to these fields
Mathematics & Astronomy 

Beautifully proportioned temple on Acropolis which is considered one of history’s most nearly perfect buildings

Parthenon
Athletic tournaments that began as festivals in honor of Zeus
Olympics
Material the Romans invented and used in their buildings

Concrete

Poorer working class Romans

Plebeians

Wealthy, upper class Romans

Patricians

Time when Rome’s legions kept peace throughout the providences
Pax Romana

Collections of conquered foreign states or countries ruled by a single person.

Empire

Ancient Italian civilization that greatly influenced the early development of Roman ways   

Etruscans
The first organized written body or code of Roman Law
Twelve Tables
Latin word for representative democracy

Republic

Took over the powers of the senate and made himself the first emperor
Octavian

Dictator whom Senators murdered to keep him from making himself King and Cleopatra Queen

Julius Caesar

High taxes, inflation, corrupt emperors

Decline of Roman Empire

Apostles like Peter and Paul spread the message of mercy and hope based on his death and resurrection.

Jesus Christ
Tribes like Vandals and Goths, who invaded and sacked Rome

Germans

Harassment, injury and even murder of hated minorities
Persecution
Became capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
Constantinople
Religion that exploded out of Arabia and quickly spread elsewhere
Islam
Romans who kept classical ways alive in East for nearly 1,000 years after the fall of the West 
Byzantines

Site of shrine and hometown of the Prophet, where Muslims make pilgrimage to each year.

Mecca (Makkah)

His Frankish empire was the most civilized society in Western Europe during this time

Charlemagne

The Arab merchant turned Prophet known as the messenger of Allah

Muhammad

Epidemic that killed one out of every three Europeans
Bubonic Plague
Code of rules of behavior medieval knights were expected to follow

Chivalry

Caste system of clergy, nobles, commons and peasants that gave order to life during this time. 
Feudalism
Dominated life in Western Europe during the Medieval Period
Roman Catholic
Craftsman’s unions
Guilds 
French teenager during he Hundred Year’s War who was buried by the English for witchcraft
Joan of Arc

Churchmen and nobles tied to each other by oaths of  loyalty and duties of service and protection

Lords and Vassals

Document that nobles forced King John to sign to limit his powers and safeguard their liberties

Magna Carta
Self-sufficient farming communities which grew-up around castles
Manors

Where Norman French knights won the crown of England for William the Conqueror from Harold Godwinson

Hastings
Medieval Popes ordered Christian knights to make pilgrimages to this place to free the Holy Land from Muslim Turks
Israel

Holy wars that created new tastes in Europe for Asian luxuries and the trade to supply them

Crusades

German pioneer in letterpress printing
Gutenberg

Classical philosophy of Renaissance thinkers that emphasizes that “man is the measure of all things”

Humanism

King who helped to create a Reformed Church to free England from control of the Pope
Henry VIII

Italian artist, scientist, engineer and inventor who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

English Renaissance poet and playwright who created characters like Macbeth and Hamlet

Shakespeare

Sculptor of the Pieta and painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo

Includes all groups whose protests of Catholic teaching and practice led to their break with Rome

Protestant

During the counter-formation, a place in Italy where the Pope's Council of Bishops met to clarify doctrine and reform church practice.

Trent

German monk whose published criticisms of church practices like indulgence sparked a revolution 

Luther

Voyages from Spain unexpectedly led to the European discovery  and colonization of the Americas

Christopher Columbus

Appeals to the Senate for help were ignored by everyone except Jedi Knights

Padma Amindala (Starwars)

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