world cultures
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pacchioliran on May 31, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Historians | scholars who study and write about the historical past |
| Artifacts | objects made by humans |
| anthropology | origins and development of people and their society |
| culture | way of life of a society |
| archeology | study of past people and cultures through their material remains |
| Technology | refers to the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants |
| Mesopotamia | between the rivers |
| Sumer | first civilization developed in southeastern Mesopotamia |
| hierarchy | system of ranking groups |
| Ziggurat | a huge mud-brick temple built by the ancient Sumerians |
| cuneiform | sumerians had invented the earliest known writing |
| Sargon | ruler of Akkad |
| Hammurabi | king of babylon |
| codify | arrange and set down in writing, all the laws that would govern a state |
| civil law | the legal code of ancient Rome |
| criminal law | offenses agains others, such as robbery, assualt, or murder |
| Nebuchadnezzar | ruthless second ruler of Babylon |
| Delta | triangular area of marshland |
| cataract | a large waterfall |
| pharoahs | egyptian kings |
| vizier | a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) |
| Hatshepsut | female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade |
| Subcontinent | a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent |
| plateau | a relatively flat highland |
| monsoons | seasonal winds that regularly blow from a certain direction for part of the year |
| Indra | god of war |
| polis | Greek city-state |
| acropolis | a large hill in ancient Greece where city residents sought shelter and safety in times of war and met to discuss community affairs |
| tyrants | people who gained power by force |
| alliance | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense. |
| canon law | as well as its own courts |
| Friar | monks who did not live in isolated monasteries, took a different approach to reform |
| interdict | an order excluding an entire town, region, or kingdom |
| charter | to protect their interests, the merchants who set up a new town asked the local lord, or king himself |
| guilds | merchants and artisans formed associations |
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