Midterm Vocab

Question 0

the father of history

Answer 0

Herodotus

Question 1

the belief is the center of the universe

Answer 1

Heliocentric

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a direct democracy leader in Athens

Answer 2

Pericles

Question 3

china dynasty that was overthrown by the Shang dynasty

Answer 3

Zhou Dynasty

Question 4

social groups into which people are born and are changed

Answer 4

Castes

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local military rulers

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War Lords

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a yellow soil

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Loess

Question 7

the leader of the Babylonian empire

Answer 7

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 8

king of Babylon

Answer 8

Hammurabi

Question 9

system of writing which pictures and objects and concepts and sounds

Answer 9

Hieroglyphics

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era of prehistory (2million BC to about 9000 BC)

Also Stone Age

Answer 10

Paleolithic Period

Question 11

final era of prehistory (Began around 9000 BC)

Called the New Stone Age

Answer 11

Neolithic period

Question 12

the spreading of the Jews beyond their historic homeland

Answer 12

Diaspora

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worlds first village (made in Modern-Day West Bank) it was built in the era 10,000 and 9,000 BC

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Jericho

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belief that spirits live in animals or objects

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Animists

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government headed by a privileged minority or upper class

Answer 15

Aristocracy

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government in which a king or queen exercises central power

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Monarchy

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absorb or adopt a culture

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Assimilate

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economic system that has a set of goods or services that are exchanged for another

Answer 18

Barter Economy

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the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

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Cultural Diffusion

Question 20

loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord

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Feudalism

Question 21

a war between Athens and Sparta

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Peloponnesian War

Question 22

ancient Greek city state

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Polis

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a temple for the Greek goddess Athena

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Parthenon

Question 24

a city-state in ancient Greece

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Athens

Question 25

group of families with a common ancestor

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Clan

Question 26

a rebellion in china

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Mandate of Heaven

Question 27

in Hindu belief, all the actions that affect a person’s fate in the next life

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Karma

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the ruler of Akkad

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Sargon

Question 29

in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks

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Cuneiform

Question 30

Egyptian leader

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Hatshepsut

Question 31

a simple drawing that looks like the object it represents

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Pictograph

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amount of food needed

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Food Surplus

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the study of the origins and development of people and their societies

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Anthropology

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archeologists who dug bones in the Olduvai Gorge

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Mary and Louis Leakey

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found a skeleton of an early hominid

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Donald Johanson

Question 36

the period of time before writing was invented

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Prehistory

Question 37

believing in many gods

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Polytheistic

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Epic Greek poem, 10 year war between Mycenae and Troy

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Trojan War

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skills and tools people use to do basic needs

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Technology

Question 40

Promoted the idea of the “golden mean” wrote politics.

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Aristotle

Question 41

applied physics to make simple inventions

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Archimedes