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- What are some aspects of cultures?
- food, language, architecture, art, music, political beliefs, and religion
- what does B.c. stand for?
- b.c. stands for before christ
- what does b.c.e. stand for?
- before common era
- what does a.d. stand for?
- amno domini year of the lord
- what does c.e. stand for?
- common era
- how does the century system work?
- add two zeros and subtract 99 years
- why do laws exsist?
- to protect society
- why do people choose to believe in myth over reason?
- gives a satisfying explanations for the mysteries of life
- what is a pharoh?
- a god decended from a god
- Give an example of egyptian archtiecture that has influenced the u.s.
- king tuts face on the luxor hotel and casino in las vegas, also the eygiptian obelisk for the washington memorial
- what rive and current day country are ascociated with the ancient civilazaition of mesopatamia?
- tigris and eurphates river in iraq
- what is the code a hammurabi?
- mesopatamian laws carved into stone
- how does writtingthe law effect how it is applied?
- so the laws cant be changed for rich or poor pepople
- why do punishment differ in diffrent communites?
- laws refelct community standards , communities differs on aplaction of th law
- in ancient greece what were the war prisioners turned into slaves called?
- helots
- name two groups unable to prticipate im democratice decision
- women and slaves
- what did pericles say about thise who didnot chose to participate to vote?
- they have no place in a democratic soiety
- what do we call a stae of no law?
- anarchy
- what do we call a system of government with a king or queen?
- monarchy
- what is the theory of govenment that says that a monarch recives right to rule?
- the divine rights of kings
- what do we call a system of goverment in which a few people rule?
- oligrachy
- what do we call someone who takes power by overthrowing the old government?
- tyrant
- what title is gived which allows absolute rule?
- dictator
- What is the diffrence between dictator and tyrant?
- dictator is given power and tyrant takes it
- what do we call a government in which free citizens rule themselves?
- democracy
- what is the advantage to a direct democracy?
- takes time and sometimes money but evreyone has a say
- what is the u.s.?
- represenative
- Compare a president and a king
- a king inhariets power and a president is elected to be president
- what was the old term used to describe high ground in ancient greece?
- Acropolis
- what are the advantages in placing a fort in an elevated posistion?
- better sightline and gravity on your side
- how has the parthenon influenced american archituecture?
- the lincoln memorial (columns)
- what did the greeks call thier self governing unit?
- polis - city state
- what did the greeks call a large square surronded by shops?
- Agora
- how have the ancient greeks influence contemporary sports?
- the olympics
- what did the greeks call some who predicted the future with psychic means?
- the oracle
- what is the diffrence between montheism and polytheism?
- monotheism is the belief in one god
- how did the men prepare for after life?
- his own free will, he had to chose between good and evil
- what country was the home of the persian empire?
- iran
- what is the name of the persian king who defeated the spartans?
- Darius I
- who took over for darius I?
- xerxes