Unit 1 Flashcards
(54 cards)
Exchange of goods and ideas between people; helped civilizations grow
Cultural diffusion
Era when nomadic life was replaced by permanent settlements due to farming and animal domestication
Neolithic revolution
Anything used to manipulate the environment beyond biological means
Technology
Characteristics shared by humans who developed permanent settlement around agriculture
Civilizations
Belief in many gods
Polytheistic
The god King in Egypt who controlled all political decision making
Pharaoh
Area between Tigris & Euphrates rivers where many early city-states emerged
Fertile Crescent
Pyramid-like temples that demonstrated the power of religion
Ziggurats
Writing system used for record keeping purposes
Cuneiform
Groups of states/territories under the control of one ruler
empire
Written & harsh legal code used in Babylon
Code Of Hammurabi
Chinese belief that their culture was the center of the earth; ethnocentric
Middle Kingdom
A family who passes authority to rule to its own members over many generations; Shang & Egyptians
Dynasty
A divine approval to rule, belief that God told them to rule
Mandate of Heaven
Local lords controlled their own regions but owed military service to the ruler
Feudalism
A leader of the Qin, proclaimed himself Shi Huangdi “First Emperor”
Qin
Lasted 400 years, taxes were reduced & eased harsh policies
Han Dynasty
Rules over the first united Indian empire
Maurya Empire
A system of managing government through departments that are run by appointed officials
Bureaucracy
Rejected further conquest, hoping to rule by moral example rather than violence
Asoka
A city-state
Polis
A government rules by the landowning elite
Aristocracy
Large # of the male citizens actually took part in day-to-day running of the government
Direct democracy
Preservation of Greek and Roman cultures
Hellenistic
