Western civ
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- capital
- money for investment
- tribute
- payment from conquered peoples
- Odoacer
- German leader who ousted the emperor in Rome
- Solon
- Wise Athenian who outlawed slavery and opened high office to more citizens
- Herodotus
- Philosopher who taught good conduct meant following a moderate course between extremes.
- Homer
- Poet who is credited with creating the Illiad and the Odysey
- Archimedes
- Scientist who applied principles of physics to make practical inventions
- Sophocles
- Historian who wrote about the Persian wars.
- potlatch
- cermoney in which a wealthy host distributes
- Ptomely
- Astronomer who theorize that the Earth was the center of the universe
- Pericles
- Statesman who established direct democracy in Athens.
- Paul
- Jewish convert who spread Christiany from Mesopotamia to Rome
- Pachacuti
- founder of the incan empire
- messiah
- anointed king sent by god
- martyr
- person who suffers or dies for his or her beliefs
- Hippocrates
- Physician whose oath set ethical standards for doctors.
- Hannibal
- Leader of Carthaginian army who crossed the Alps to invade Italy.
- Aristotle
- Playright who wrote Antigone
- Cleisthenes
- Athenian reformer who made the assembly a genuine legislature.
- Huitzilopochtli
- aztec sun of god
- Jesus
- Central figure in Christianity
- aqueduct
- bridge-like stone structure that brought water from hills to cities
- Pythagoras
- Mathematican who derived a fromula to calculate the relationship between sides of a right triangle.
- republic
- Government in which officials are chosen by the people
- usury
- tax to the church required christians to pay
- quipu
- knotted colored strings used for keeping records
- chivalry
- a code of conduct adopted by nights in the middle ages
- Solon
- Leader of Athens who introduced social, political, and economic reforms.
- Augustus
- First ruler of the roman empire
- mercenary
- foreign soldier whos serves for pay.
- Virgil
- Author of the Roman epics poem, Aeneid
- secular
- worldly
- patrician
- Member of Roman landhlding upper class
- heresy
- a belief that is contrart to official church teachings
- bishop
- church officials responsible for all christians in an area
- Homer
- Blind poet credited with creating the Illiad and the Odyssey
- Julius Caeser
- General who brought Gaul under control in Rome
- fief
- an estate granted to a vassal
- igloo
- dome shaped home made from snow and ice
- charter
- written document that setout the rights and privileges of a town
- Socrates
- Philosopher who examined beliefs and ideas through critical questioning.
- legion
- basic unit of the roman army
- plebian
- Roman farmer merchant artisan or trader
- olmecs
- incan sun god
- tithe
- lending money
- serf
- a peasant who was bound to the land