chapter 6-10 vocab (history 101) Flashcards
Senate
an advisory council first to the kings and later to the annually changing republican officials
Republic
the supreme power is held by the male citizens
Julius Caesar
a general who later became the leader of rome
Pax Romana
the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire.
Romanization
the spread of the latin language and roman way of life
Apostle Paul
a jew from the greek city of tarsus in southeast anatolia; he was a missionary
Constantine
Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
Byzantium
the ancient Greek city on the site that later became Constantinople.
Great Wall
a defensive wall in N China constructed as a defence against the Mongols
subcontinent
a large and physically isolated landmass
vedas
religious texts that are our main source of information about the vedic age
monsoon
seasonal wind in the region of Southern Asia
varna
any of the four Hindu castes
karma
destiny or fate of a person
buddha
Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism; “the enlightened one”
mahabharata
an epic poem of India dealing mainly with the conflict between the Pandavas and the Kauravas
srivijaya
a dominant city-state on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia
mesoamerica
a region of great geographic and climatic diversity;
area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras
olmec
ancient people who lived near southern east coast of mexico
llamas
the only domesticated animal for transportation in the americas
teotihuacan
city located 30 miles northeast of modern mexico city
maya
civilization in guatemala, honduras, belize, and southern mexico
toltecs
American Indian people that prospered in Mexico before the Aztecs.
anasazi
a number of dispersed desert cultures located in what is now the Four Corners in the us
