Social Studies Voc.
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- truce
- an agreement where two or more people agree to stop fighting
- virtue
- goodness or moral excellence
- recession
- a time when trade and business fall off
- Koran
- the holy scripture of Islam, which Muslims believe was written by God (allah) and dicated to Muhammed; also spelled Quran
- dictator
- the absolute ruler of a city or country
- coliseum
- a large theater or sports arena
- Allah
- the name of God used by folllowers of the religion Islam
- martyr
- someone who is killed for his or her religious or other personal beliefs
- plebeian
- a member of the Roman lower class
- Pax Romana
- the period of peace and order throughout the Roman Empire that lasted for nearly 200 years and began witht eh first emperor, Caesar Augustus
- ostracize
- in ancient Athens, to banish or send away; nowadays it means "drive someone out of social life"
- epic poem
- a long poem that tells the story of the adventures of one or more legendary heroes
- abstract
- pure and simple, not complicated
- tribute
- money or goods that conquered peoples were forced to give to those who conquered them
- plaque
- a disease that sweeps through a twon or country, causing many to die
- city-state
- an independent town or city that governs itself and the land around it
- Phoenician
- Middle Eastern people who traded around the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years
- patrician
- a member of the ruling class or aristocracy of ancient Rome
- heritage
- the customs and beliefs that people inherit from an earlier time, people or culture
- tribune
- representative of the plebeian class
- Byzantine Empire
- the name of the Eastern Roman Empire from about A.D. 330 until its end in 1453
- rhetoric
- the art of using language, especially to persuade others
- trilogy
- a group of three related dramatic or literary works
- ethics
- the branch of philosophy that studies what it means to live a good, moral life
- Asia Minor
- another name for the Anatolian Peninsula, where much of Turkey is located
- republic
- a government without a king; republics usually have some elected officials
- persecution
- harassment or oppression
- inflation
- a process that makes money more widely available and therefore less valuable