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- Legions
- groups of 5,000 soldiers
- Labyrinth
- Maze with a Minotaur in it
- Phalanx
- Infantry formation
- Democracy
- A government where all people are equal and the people rule
- Socratic Method
- Form of questioning
- Fertility
- Is what early religions were based on
- Rivers of Mesopatamia
- Mesopotamia is in between the Tigris and Euphrates
- Koran
- Muslim holy book
- Greek's first win over Persia
- conquered Persian army
- corvus
- A movable bridge on the front of a ship. used to make battle at sea more like battle on land.
- what made christianity legal
- Constatine I
- Delta
- A triangular shaped or area of fertile ground
- Litter
- A carriage carried by servants
- Upper and lower Egypt
- Upper in the south, lower in the north
- Neolithic
- New stone age
- Steps of the scientific method
- 1st-collect info 2nd- based on the observation, form a hypothesis 3rd-test your hypothesis
- Omens
- Signs believed to indicate the future
- Thebes
- A capital in the Mew Kingdom. The city's god is Amon-re
- Veto
- Say no to
- Fasces
- A bundle of rods bound around an axe
- Menes
- Another name for Namer
- Culture that came up with zero
- Mayans
- Athens under Peisistratus
- dived large estates among farmers. allowed non-land ownersto be citizens.Encouraged sculpture and other art.
- Immortals
- Elite fighterst that never fall below 10,000
- Name of the new capital
- Persepolis
- Consuls
- made up of 2 men. commander in cheif, administrators, veto, military leaders, Chosen for a year
- Egypt's decline
- Struggle between priests and the Pharaoh. Too much monry spent on war. Tutandkhamen
- Location of modern Persia
- Iran
- Census
- Poplulation count
- Monk
- Christian men who lived in a religious community and did as Basil suggested
- Chaldean's contribution
- The seven day week. Sundials
- Canaanites
- Herders
- Ides of March
- Mrach 15, 44 BC the day Ceasar died.
- Agora
- An open area used as a marketplace
- Holy of holies
- Temples with sacred chambers
- Library
- Ashurbanipal started the world's first library
- Etruscan's advantage in battle
- Leather shoes
- Oligarchy
- A form of government with few rulers
- Mundus
- A meeting point for hte living and the dead
- Specialization
- Development of occupations
- Pax Romana
- Time of peace 200 years
- Scientific Method
- The process used by scientists to study something
- Bearded Lady
- Hatshepsut
- Famous king of the Chaldeans
- Nebuchadnezzar
- Dictator
- Absolute ruler
- Key to Egyptian civilization
- Nile River
- Orator
- Public speakers
- Tenants
- people who live and work another person's land
- Phoenician alphabet
- Layed the foundation for most languages
- Ahmose
- An Egyptian prince that kicked the Hyksos out of Egypt
- Hannibal
- Led Carthage over the Alps with elephants
- 1st emporer
- Sargon I
- minotaur
- mythical creature of the labyrinth
- Spaniard who conquered the Aztecs
- Cortes
- Ashurbanipal
- An Assyrian king who started one of the world's first libraries
- Aristocrats
- Nobles
- Responsibilities/ rights of citizenship in Athens
- Vote, own property, speak in court, hold public office
- Fall of Rome
- empire spilt
- Tribunes
- Government officials elected to protect the rights of the plebians
- Rhetoric
- speech
- olive oil
- made the Myceneans wealthy
- Helots
- Enslaved peopleowned by the city-state
- phalanx
- Infantry formation
- 1st emporer of Rome
- Augustus (Octavian)
- Senate
- A branch of government with 300 men in it
- Property
- Is what early governments were based on.
- Domus
- A house a rich family would live in
- Embalming
- Wrapping dead bodies to preserve them
- Island capital of the Aztecs
- Tenochtitlan
- polis
- city-state
- Athens under Cleisthenes
- world's 1st democratic constitution. Freedom of speech
- Plebians
- lower class
- Murex
- Purple dye from shellfish
- The Republic
- A book written on political science
- Paul was famous for...
- spreading the gospel
- Acropolis
- Fortified hill
- Republic
- Government in which citizens choose their leaders
- Assembly
- made up of all the citizens. can make peace and war
- Egyptian empire
- New Kingdom
- How were the Assyrians different?
- They had a strong well organized army. more war-like
- Cato's famous line
- "Carthage must be destoyed"
- Builder of new Persian capital
- King Darius
- Publicans
- tax collecters
- Empire located in the Andes
- Incas
- Home of the Hanging Gardens
- Hanging gardens of Babylon
- Alexander's education
- Educated by Aristotle
- Athens under Pericles
- It was the golden age.
- 1st empire
- Akkad
- The Assyrian major advantage
- They found a way to conquer without fighting
- Pyramids
- Great tombs built for Pharaoh
- Domestication
- Taming of animals and plants
- German key to victory over the Romans
- Iron stirrups
- Mare Nostrum
- Our sea. mediterranean
- Trojan war
- A war fought over the legendary Helen
- Heiroglyphics
- A kind of writing where pictures stand for words and sounds
- Canaan
- Isreal and Lebanon
- City-state
- City and surrounding area. Own government and god
- Perioeci
- Merchants and artisans
- Macedonian conquerer of Greek city-states
- King Philip II
- Location of Indus River Civilization
- Modern Pakistan
- Ziggurats
- Center of religious life. "moutian of god"
- Nile delta
- Gave natural protection
- Patricians
- Upper class
- Legends of rome
- the founding of rome is based on a legend
- The span of Alexander's empire
- Conquered Persina empire. Covered land form the Nile to The Endus River, while mever losing a battle
- famous oracle
- Oracle of Delphi
- Necropolis
- Cemetary
- Masters of the Mediterranean after the Minoans
- Myceneans
- Location of primitive settlements
- Fresh water source, shelter, soil to grow food, a place with many resources, a good climate
- Contributions of Mesopotamia
- Cuneiform (wedge writing), whell, 12 month calander, plow, number system, clocks, sailboats
- 1st settlers of Mesopotamia
- Sumer
- Alexander's most famous city
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Minoan's home
- Crete
- Athens under Solon
- Erased all debts. Father hade teach their son a trade. He set a limit on land ownership
- Aeneas
- will lead his people to Italy and join a group called the Latins
- Triremes
- A warship with three levels of rowers on each side
- Maize
- Corn
- Polis
- City-state
- Cedar wood
- Cedars of Lebanon were used to build trading ships that will become a traveling workshop
- Empire
- Group of states under one rule
- Punic Wars
- fought against Carthage
- first specialized occupations
- Potters, weavers, and metal workers
- Triumvirate
- Group of three persons that share the power
- Focus of Spata's citizens
- Focused on military
- Philistines
- Traders and shipbuilder
- Minoan's famous city-state
- "house of the double ax"