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- vernacular
- everyday languages of ordinary people
- Delian League
- was formed to protect against threats from persia (after the persian war)
- scholasticism
- the medival minds who tried to resolver the conflict between faith and reason
- capital
- money for investment
- Peloponnesian War
- conflict that brought the end of Athenian Greatness (Greeks) Athenians and Sparta
- secular
- worldly
- Tragedy
- play that told a story of human suffering
- Isabella
- Queen, finance c.c. to go on a voyage
- Aristotle
- founded the Lyceum (its a school) alexanders teachers, taught by plato
- marathon
- athens won a surprise victory (at this place) against persia
- Thomas Aquinas
- believed that God ruled over an orderly universe governed by logic
- Iroquois League
- was formed to keep the peace
- Legislature
- law making body
- Nezahaulcoyotl
- delclared himself the "sapa inca"
- Alexander the Great
- was put on the throne at 20, wanted to conquer persia
- theology
- religious studies
- tithe
- tax the church required christians to pay
- pueblo
- is a spanish term for these anasazi villages
- tribute
- payment from conquered peoples
- fief
- an estate granted to a vassal
- Plato
- wrote the republic, aristotles teacher
- inuit
- arctic people
- serf
- a peasant who was bound to the land
- Innocent III
- launched the Albigensian Crusade
- Archimedes
- mastered the use of the levers and pulleys
- Democracy
- government ruled by the people
- anasazis
- cliff dwelling people
- inti
- was chief among incan gods
- charter
- written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town
- Joan of Arc
- led the French to several victories and was tried for witchcraft
- phillip of macedon
- Defeated Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea
- usury
- lending money for investment
- comedy
- humorous plays that mocked people or customs
- Pythagoras
- developed the theory that a^2+b^2=c^2
- quipu
- incan officials kept records on this
- chivalry
- a code of conduct adopted by knights in the middle ages
- Homer
- wrote the Illiad and odes
- Acropolis
- high level of city-state, where government buildings and temples are built
- Euclid
- developed basic geometry theorems
- crusade
- Holy war
- chosen women
- served the sun god
- Knossos
- sight of the Minoan
- Herodotus
- wrote the persian Wars (father of modern day history, the study of history)
- potlatch
- is a ceremony where lavish gifts are accepted
- common law
- law that is the same for all people
- chavin
- earliest people of peru
- Thucydides
- historian, erged people to avoid bais (picking one side over another)
- Sparta
- (women obeyed men; owned property; governed by council of elders) assembly of citizens and 5 ephors
- Phalanx
- fighting formation
- pachacuti
- in 1438 this man declared himself sapa inca
- Themistocles
- urged Greeks to build stronger defenses after Marathon