History Terms
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- Brahman
- A "spiritual power" that is in everything ((hinduism))
- Monarchy
- A form of government that is ruled by one king like figure
- Clan
- A group of people with a commen ancestor
- Paleolithic
- Old Stone age ((Banded together, hunters and gatherers, invented clothing, fire))
- Democracy
- A form of government where the population make the decisions
- Hammurabi
- First to codify laws. Created "An eye for an eye..."
- Socrates
- A philospher who's teachings were written down by his student plato. Believed mental image was truth.
- Taoism
- A philosophy of peace. Encourages to go with the flow. Also known as daoism
- Pericles
- A ruler of athens durring the golden age
- Confucious
- A philospher in ancient china. Taught the 5 relationships
- Mesolithic
- Middle stone age
- The Mandate of Heaven
- The divine right to rule ((created in the Zhou Dynasty))
- Strait
- A Narrow water passage
- Zoroaster
- A man who created Zoroastianism, a religion very similer to christianity
- Nomad
- Someone who travels
- Homer
- A greek poet famous for his epic poetry such as the illiad and the oddisy
- Queen Hatshepsut
- First female pharaoh of egypt
- Satrap
- The govener of a province
- Shi Huangdi
- Ruled the Qin dinasty. Unified china
- Reincarnation
- Living again as another person or being after death
- City-state
- A province
- Legalism
- A harsh way of life. Believed that humans were inclined to do evil.
- Monsoon
- A seasonal wind ((wet or dry))
- Neolithic
- New stone age ((settled down, farmers, domesticated animals, tools, early religion))
- Feudalism
- A form of government where local lords governed land and owned military service
- Glacier
- Giant sheet of ice
- Caste
- A system of socal status that you are born into and cannot change
- Mystic
- People looking for spiritual truth
- The Silk Road
- A trade ruite in china set up by Emperor Wudi