Social Power Words Flashcards
Working class of Rome
Plebeians
Wealthy class of Rome
Patricians
Roman laws written on stone tablets
Twelve tables
Customary laws creating a standard for the people
Law of nations
Full time commanders of armies and law
Senate
The Roman empires under rule of Caesar Augustus
Pax Romana
Rome vs Carthage happened three times
Punic war
A story of an immortal hero
Epic poem
A Greek city-state
Polis
What were Plato’s, archimedes, eyeclades and Socrates
Philosopher
Small groups of people rulling over others
Oligarchy’s
Slaves working the land in Greece
Helots
Magistrates of Sparta
Ephors
A method of questioning leading to deep thought
Socratic method
The First advanced civilization in Europe
Minoan people
Warriors of Greece
Mycenaeans
Two stories by the famous poet Homer
The illiad and odyssey
A god with human characteristics
Anthropomorphic
The spartan fighting formation
Phalinx
A crescent shaped area where the Mesopotamians lived
Fertile Crescent
A form of government lead by a god or significant figure
Theocracy
A temple built by sumarians for hosting gods
Ziggurat
A code of laws created by the king Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi
The first form of physical writing
Cuneiform
Worship multiple gods
Polytheistic
A religion around the idea of karma
Hinduism
A religion around A life of perfect medium and contentment
Buddhism
A religion around A life of perfect medium and contentment
Buddhism
The god of wisdom in Hinduism
Ganesha
Written language of ancient India
Sanskrit
A system of 4 major social groups in India
Caste system
A group of nomads in India with a different religion
Aryans
Top of the caste system
Brahmins
2nd on the caste system
Kshatriyad
3rd on the caste system
Vaisyas
4th on the caste system
Sudras
A persons actions determine there next life
Karma
A persons actions determine there next life
Karma
A divine law telling people there duties
Dharma
A perfect enlightening
Nirvana
