world history
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guitarhearts on September 14, 2008
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world history vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 geography | is the study of Earth's features |
| continents | are large landmasses |
| landform | is a feature of earth's land surface |
| weather | the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time is callde weather |
| climate | the typical weather conditions at a particular place over a period of time are the place's. |
| cartography | the skills and methods people use to make maps |
| projection | is a way of keeping the distortion of a flat map consistent and manageable |
| hemisphere | on maps earth can be divided into two equal halves. each half is a... |
| latitude | imaginery lines that run parallel to the identify are called. |
| longitude | lines are imaginery lines that go around earth through the north and south poles |
| archaeology | is the recovery and study of physical evidence from archaeologists |
| excavation | archaeologists then dig to find buried evidence. this digging is called... |
| history | is the study of past events |
| historian | is a person who studys and interprets or explains the importance of the past |
| primary source | is a document or artifact created during a particular historical period |
| oral history | includes the stories a culture has passed from generation to generation |
| secondary source | another type of evidence. it is a work produced about a historical event by someone who was not actually there. |
| republic | the romans established a form of goverment known as a...in this type of government, power rests with the citizens, who vote to select their leaders. |
| Agustus | caesar's adopted son octavian emerged as the winner and unchallenged ruler of rome he took the title |
| empire | is a group of diffrent cultures or territories led by a single allpowerful ruler |
| emporor | the ruler of an empire |
| christianity | one thing that roman leaders could not contain was the spread of a new religion known as |
| clovis | he is the leader of a goranic group known as the franks who conqured the remaining roman land in the province of gaul |
| artifact | an object made by a human. |
| anthropology | the study of humans and human culture. |
| culture | a way of life shared by a group of people. |
| constantine | succeeded Diocletian as emperor and took two steps of great significance. |
| byzantine empire | the estern part survived and was named. |
| justinian I | this was due in large part to the efforts of a powerful ruler |
| justinian code | byzantine life and sereved for 900 years |
| schism | or official split between the new groups |
| roman catholic | the christian church in the west |
| mosaic | is pictures made fo many small colored pieces of glass |
| aquaducts | are bridge like structures that bring clean water to the towns |
| orthodox | the christian church in the east |
| stoicism | developed by the greek philosopher Zeno. it stresses the importance of virtue, duty, and endurance in life. |
| iberian peinsula | is the sowthweastern tip of europe where the modern nations of spain and portugal are located |
| buraeucracy | is a system ofdepartment and agencies that carry out the work of the goverment |
| abd al-malik | who became caliph in 685 solved this problem |
| standing army | is a fighting force that is maintained in times of peace as well as in times of war |
| baghdad | their capital in 762 |
| golden age | is a period during which a society or culture is at age |
| calligraphy | is the art of fine handwriting |
| omar khayyam | is a persian born muslim |
| al andalus | declared himself emir |
| cordoba | is al andalus capital |
| mercenaries | are soldiers paid to fight |
| abd al Rahman | he was the eight emir |
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