World History Unit 1
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NSODballerina on October 4, 2009
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This is 9th grade world history chapters 1-5, or unit 1
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Law of Nations |  Romans established legal justice for all |
| Latifundia | Large landed estates, patricians lived there |
| Nero | Emperor that accused the Christians for doing bad things that they didn't do |
| Theodosisus the Great | Ruler of Rome, adopted Christianity as the official religion |
| Hieratic Script | Symplified version of hieroglyphics (Egyptians) |
| Sargon | Ruler of Accadions, conquered Sumeria city-state |
| Judaism | First monotheistic religion |
| Cyrus the Great | Compassionate wisdom, tolerant of other religions |
| Darius | Persian leader, conquered and extended empire to India |
| Zhou Dynasty | Ruled China, believed they ruled by the Mandate of Heaven |
| Qin Dynasty | Ruled China, began Great Wall of China, strong central government, Four Noble Truths- Buddhism |
| Dao | "the way" |
| Socrates | Philosopher in ancient Greece, says, "you need to examine your life" |
| Alexander the Great | 20 when becoming King of Macedonia, invaded Persia, built Alexandria- Greek capital of Egypt, great military success, extended Greek and Macedonian rule over a vast area |
| Roman Senate | Republic, allowed male citizens to vote |
| Augustan Age | Age of peace and prosperity of Rome, Rome reached its height, first Roman emperor after Caeser's assasination |
| Etruscans | Had a monarchy= causes Rome to have a Republic, people didn't like them |
| Patricians | Great landowners, Rome's ruling class |
| Anthropology | Study of human life and culture, used artifacts and human fossils to determine how people lived their lives |
| Thermal Lumenesence Dating | Measures light given off by electrons trapped in the soil surrounding fossils and artifacts, measures things back to 200,000 years |
| Fossils | Remence of a living organsism |
| Archaeology | Study of past societies through an analysis of what people left behind |
| Radio Carbon Dating | Can calculate the age of measurng amount of C-14 left in it |
| Systematic Agriculture | Keeping animals and growing food on a regular basis |
| Nomads | People who traveled from place to place |
| Oligarchy | Rule by few |
| Artifacts | Tools, pottery, paintings, weapons, buildings and household items of early peoples (inadimate objects) |
| Neolithic | "new stone" in Greek |
| Jericho | One of the first cities that had a systematic agriculture |
| Macedonia | Powerful kingdom- Alexander the Great, conquered by the Romans |
| Polis | City-state |
| Mycenae | In Greece, capital/center |
| Archimedes | Calculated pi, and density of gold, found circumference of a circle |
| Herodotis | First historian |
| Achilles | Wrote Illiad |
| Pheidippides | Ran to Athens, "marathon" |
| Hellenistic | Alexander created the Hellenistic Age, Greek for "to imitate the Greeks", big in science and philosophy |
| Sophocles | Great Athenian playwright- Oedipus Rex |
| Triumvirate | Government by three people with equal power |
| Romulus Augustulus | Germanic head of the army |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Fell in love, allied together |
| Sadducees | Favored cooperation with Rome |
| Vandals | Sacked Rome, modern word comes from this ruthless tribe |
| Paterfamilias | Dominant male |
| Insulae | Where the poor lived, 6 stories high, poorly built and often collapsed |
| Code of Hammurabi | Based on a system of strict justice |
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