Finals Vocab

Question 0

Artifacts

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Objects made and used by early humans

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Hominids

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Humans and other human like creature

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Culture

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Beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living share by a group

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Limited Evidence

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Evidence about which little information is given

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Civilization

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Complex society

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Cuneiform

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Writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into a clay tablet

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Ziggurat

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Temples made of sun dried brick

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City-state

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Government that includes a town or city and the surrounding land controlled by it

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Dynasty

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Family of rulers

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Empire

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Form of government that United different territories and people under one ruler

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Mummification

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Process to preserve the body after death

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Hieroglyphics

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Form of Egyptian writing

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Sanskrit

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Indo- Aryan language

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Brahmins

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Special priests who know the proper forms and rules of religious rituals

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Raja

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Prince who rules an Indo-Aryan city-state

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Epics

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Long poem base on historical religious themes

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Reincarnation

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Beliefs in rebirth of souls

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Nirvana

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Perfect spiritual peace

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Bureaucracy

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Government organized into different levels and tasks

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Oracle bones

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Cattle bones or tortoise shells

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Dialect

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Variations of a language

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Calligraphy

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Chinese art of writing

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Civil Service

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System that runs the day to day governmental business

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Ancestors

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Family members that have died

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Genealogy

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Record of a family history

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Peninsula

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Land surrounded on three sides by water

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Polis

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Greek word for city state developed around a central fort

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Popular government

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Idea that people can and should rule themselves

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Democracy

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Government in which citizens take part

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Philosophy

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Study of basic questions of reality and human existence

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Drama

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Plays containing action or dialogue

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Myth

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Traditional stories about gods goddesses and Hero’s

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Olympic Games

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Festival including contests of sports music and literature

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Hellenistic culture

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“Greek like” way of life that combines ideas and values from the Greeks and Asia

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Republic

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Form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state

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Dictator

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Absolute ruler

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Consuls

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Chief executives elected by Rome’s popular assemblies

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Veto

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To refuse to accept

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Patricians

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Powerful landowners who controlled roman government and society

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Plebeians

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Farmers and workers who made up most of the roman population

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Gladiators

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Trained fighters, usually slaves who fought in arenas as entertainment