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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

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