Wold History Test

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Cilvization

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A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion and art

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Theocracy

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A goverment established by divine authority

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City-state

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A state with political and economic control over the surrounding country side

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Polytheistic

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Believing in many gods

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Ziggurat

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A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief God or goddess of a Sumerian city

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Bureaucracy

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An administrative organization that relies on elective officials and regular procedures

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Pharaoh

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The most common of the various titles for ancient Egyptian monarchs. The term originally meant “great house or palace”

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Monsoon

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Weather pattern where warm summer moist air creates heavy rains &; wind. Winter-cold dry air

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Aryans

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People who speak Indo-European languages

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Sanskrit

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The first writing system of the Aryans

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Aristocracy

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Upper class had more wealth, is based on land and power

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Dao

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“Way”; the correct or divine way

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Hieroglyphs

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“Priest carvings” or sacred writings

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Monotheism

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Believing in one God

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Zhou dynasty

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Longest lasting Chinese dynasty from 1045-256BCE. Followed the Shang dynasty. Mandate of Heaven.

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Shang dynasty

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First recorded dynasty. ruled by aristocracy.First to use bronze

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Filial Piety

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Filial=son or daughter. Duty to care for elders of family. Specifies family hierarchy. Patriarchy

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Warring States Period

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Zhou collasped because other states conquered iron weapons replace bronze

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Mesopotamia

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Land between two rivers, Mesopotamia was one area in which civilization began. the three general areas Sumer, Akked, Asria

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Mandate of Heaven

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Basic principle of goverment

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Oracle bones

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Earliest Chinese writing

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Olmec

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Also called rubber people

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Cuneiform

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Wedge shaped writing

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Sargon of Akkad

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Large political unit or state, usually a single leader that controls many people or territories

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Babylonian Empire

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Conquered Sumer and Akkad

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Code of Hummurabi

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“The punishment fits the crime” and “eye for an eye”

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Sumerians

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First Mesopotamian civilization. 90% were farmers. First to build cities, monarchies and bureaucracies.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Flood story -Gilgamesh looks for secret to immortality

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Yellow River (Huang He)

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In ancient China

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Kush

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An ancient African kingdom

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Artisan

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A worker in a skilled trade especially one that involves making things by hand

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Akkadian empire

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Lasted about 200 years

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Commerce/trade

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Activity of buying and selling

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Egypt

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A civilzation of ancient northeastern Africa

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Pyramid

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A monumental structure that comes to a point, used as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt

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Phoenicians

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Mainly located on the Mediterranean Sea

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Hyskos

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Group of people from Western Asia

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Caral

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The oldest major city in the Americas

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Chavin

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The people of the Chavin culture lived in South America before the Inca

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Indus River Valley

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Reached from Himalaya to Arabian Sea civilization

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Harappa and Mohenjo Daro

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two major cities of the Indus River Valley

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obsidian

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artisians were famous for these types of tools made out of a dark natural glass stone formed by lava

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teotitihuacan-

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first major city of Mesoamerica - Teotithuacan means the place of the gods

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Mesoamerica -

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Mexico and central america, where ancient empires flourished.

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Hittite

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They were the first Indo-Americans to use iron and iron weapons. Sea Peoples destroyed the Hittite empire

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Minoans

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minoan civilization was established on the island of crete The minoans were not greek they had built an enormous palace complex on crete at Knossos

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Bronze Figurines

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the Shang are best rembered for their mastery of bronze casting thousands of bronzes objects have been found in tombs from the Shang period and are among the most admired creations of Chinese art

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hebrews/judiasum

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the covenant, law and prophets are three aspects of Jewish religious tradition. Jews believe that God made a contract with them. God promised to protect them if they followed his Torah, Judaism’s foundational set of precepts. The most famous laws in the Torah are the 10 commandments. in the Jewish tradition gods wishes had been written down and was available to any man who could read the hebrew bible - 2 big differences of judaism from other religions of western Asia and Egypt were belief in only one god and that gods will was available to anyone who could read the Hebrew bible and not only for priests and rulers .