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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diffusion |  spread of ideas, customs, and technologies |
| Polytheism | believing in many gods |
| Rosetta Stone | translates nieroglyphics to Greek adn Demotic |
| Code of Hammurabi | first written-down law |
| Monotheism | believing in one god |
| Diaspora | scattering of Jews |
| Hieroglyphics | form of Egyptain picture writing |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian wedge-shaped carving writing |
| Karma | that all the actions affect a person's fate (Hindu) |
| Dharma | religous and moral duties (Hindu) |
| Reincarnation | rebirth in to another form/body (Hindu) |
| Polis | Greek city-state |
| Aristocracy | government headed by upper class |
| Republic | government where officials are chosen by the people |
| Pax Romana | Roman time of peace |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Summerian writed (Mesopotamia) |
| Book of the Dead | tells of Egyptian rituals and beliefs |
| Mahabharata and Ramayana | epic Indian literature |
| Iliad and Odyssey | wrtten by Home (Greece) |
| The Aeneid | written by Virgil (Rome) |
| Menes | king of upper Egypt who united the two regions |
| Tutankhamen | an ancient 18-yr old Egyptian king |
| Abraham | a man who lived in Ur of Mesopotamia |
| Sargon | ancient ruler of Akkad |
| Nebuchanezzar | king who brought back power to Babylon |
| Darius | Persian emperor who set Persia into provinces |
| Xerxes | Darius' son who continued the fight against Greece |
| Aryans | ancient group of people from India |
| Confucius | Chinese man who put out ideas to restore social order |
| Shihuangdi | Chinese ruler who centralized power by rewarding and punishing |
| Pericles | Greek statesman who brought up economy and made things more democratic |
| Alexander the Great | Greek ruler who conquered Persia, Egypt, and into India |
| Hannibal | the carthanginan general who fought against Rome |
| Julius Caesar | Roman military commander who became ruler |
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