Vocabulary Semester Exam-World History
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- before writing
- prehistory
- written records
- history
- ended prehistoric times
- writing
- named after the tools used
- stone age
- all the ways of a peoples life
- culture
- change from nomadic to farming
- neolithic revolution
- Sumaririan writing
- cuneiform
- many gods
- polythesism
- main feature of civilization
- cities
- one god
- monotheism
- egyptian ruler
- pharoh
- egyptian writing
- hieroglyphics
- mesopotamia
- fertile crescent
- spread of ideas, technologies, from one country to another through trade, migration, and warfare
- cultural diffusion
- the after life
- other world
- loss of all earthly desire
- nirvana
- holy hindu writings
- vadas
- spirits inhabit everything
- animism
- separation begun by areans to maintain spiritual purity
- caste system
- being reborn based on your karma
- reincarnation
- governed govenments and support of gods for the ruler
- mandate of heaven
- hon test
- civil service
- indian numerals
- arabic
- concieved by india
- zero
- gupta india used this system
- decimal
- first italian settlers
- latins
- military city-state
- spatra
- spartan slaves
- helots
- alexander spread this culture
- greek
- develpoed democracy
- athens
- Iliad and Odyddey
- homer
- founder of Hellenistic Age
- alexander
- most famous athenian temple
- parthenon
- hill above the see
- acropolis
- questioning method
- socrates
- tital given to octavian
- augustus
- roman power shared between caesar and other generals
- first triumvirate
- pax romana
- poman peace
- eastern roman capital
- constantinople
- hanniblas home
- carthage
- first to use trigonomotry
- hipparchus
- father of geometry
- euclid
- founder of zoology
- aristotle
- heliocentric theory
- aristarchus
- theory of displacement
- archimedes
- fought between athens and sparta
- peloponnesian war
- athens emerged as the most powerful city-state
- persian wars
- early greeks
- minoans
- known for the trogean war
- mycenaeans
- fought to teach the athenians a lesson for their interferencein the ionian rebelion
- marathon