Mrs. G.'s End of Year Quizlet
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- castes
- divisions within India's society
- parallels of latitude
- imaginary horizontal lines used by geographers
- Muhammad
- he became the prophet of Islam in A.D. 610
- Mayas
- they abandoned their cities because of crop failures
- Greece
- communities here thought of themselves as separate nations because they were separated by mountains and water
- Alexander the Great
- he attacked the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture and established many cities
- pyramids
- tombs for dead pharaohs
- Sahara
- name of the desert that stretches across northern Africa
- Buddhism
- religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama
- Nile
- river which flooded every year making Egyptian land ideal for farming
- Tyre
- Phoenician city who gained wealth from selling cloth made with purple dye from snails
- polytheism
- the belief in many gods
- hieroglyphs
- Egyptian system of writing
- concrete
- Roman invention that made them able to build taller buildings
- people and the environment
- interaction focuses on the relationship between them
- women
- group of ancient Athenians who were expected to stay at home
- Abraham
- taught the Israelites to practice monotheism
- oracles
- who ancient Greeks visited to ask advice from the gods
- famine
- the reason why the Israelites left Canaan
- missionaries
- they were responsible for spreading Buddhism from India to China
- straight-edge
- tool necessary for using a distance scale
- Alexandria
- ancient Egyptian city famous for its huge library of scrolls
- Mohenjo-Daro
- Indian city that had a drainage system made up of clay pipes under the streets
- floods
- danger near rivers
- bronze swords and body armor
- two things that made the armies of Egypt's New Kingdom very successful
- desert
- Egypt's natural protection from invasion
- Hinduism
- religion resulting from the combination of Aryan and Indian culture
- emperors
- sometimes they were good at ruling Rome
- Constantinople
- this city became the capital of the Roman Empire after Diocletian divided the empire
- tyrants
- rulers who gained power because of the merchant class in Greece
- paper
- Chinese invention created during the Han dynasty
- paterfamilias
- he had absolute power over his entire household
- Himalayas
- the great barrier north of India
- Five Themes of Geography
- interaction, location, movement, place, regions
- location
- the two types are relative and absolute
- astronomy
- Egyptians used this to predict when the Nile would flood
- alphabet
- Phoenician development that made it easier for people to learn to read and write
- Assyria
- empire known for its great library
- Fertile Crescent
- ancient area of very rich farmland
- Phoenicians
- Mediterranean sailors who sold their goods
- republic
- what the Romans created after defeating the last Etruscan king
- Trojan War
- not long after this event, Greece fell into the Dark Ages
- philosopher kings
- Plato thought they would rule the ideal society
- Mesopotamia
- located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- Mediterranean
- Rome's location at the center of this sea made it a good spot to build an empire
- eight
- total number of directions on a compass rose
- rivers
- China's first civilizations began near these
- Five Pillars of Islam
- included the requirements of fasting, praying, pilgrimage, almsgiving, and declaration of faith
- meridians of longitude
- imaginary vertical lines used by geographers
- reincarnation
- Hindu belief that after death, the soul is reborn into another body
- agora
- Athenian market place
- Incas
- they were able to farm on steep slopes by building terraces to keep the soil in place
- Judaism
- the religion which had a great influence on both Christianity and Islam
- Confucius
- his ideas led to government posts being given to those who were most qualified
- Romans
- forced the Jews to leave Judaea in A.D. 135
- family
- the most important unit of early Chinese society
- Spain
- the country the conquered both the Incan and Aztec empires
- Jesus
- a Roman governor condemned him to death because he feared he would lead a revolt
- Justinian's Code
- an organized collection of Roman laws
- Hammurabi's Code
- first set of written laws