DJHS World History 8 Unit 1 test

Terms	Definitions
Archaeologist	hunt for evidence buried int he ground
artifacts	weapons, tools, or other things made by humans
empire	many lands, one ruler
glaciers	huge sheets of ice
Kemet	Black land - what the soil is called in Egypt
Himalaya	Mountain range that separates India from N. Asia
dieties	gods/goddesses
Pataliputra	Capital of Mauryan Dynasty
conquistadors	Spanish conqueror/explorer
Pyramids	tombs of pharaohs
quipu	knotted cord used in the Incan civ. for communication
caravans	traveling merchants
Sanskrit	Aryan language
Nile	world's longest river - in Egypt
Hieroglyphics	Egyptian writing system
Cuneiform	Sumerian writing system
Teotihuacan	Planned city built by the Olmec
Tigris & Euphrates	Major rivers in Mesopotamia
Guru	Indian teacher
Montezuma II	Aztec leader defeated by Cortez
Atahualpa	Incan leader defeated by Pizarro
embalming	process of preserving a person's body for the afterlife in Egypt
tribute	forced payments
Specialization	development of different jobs
Hammurabi	created a law code in Babylon
Iroquois Laegue	confederation est. by Native Americans to end fighting in N. America
Papyrus	reed plan used in paper making
Tenochtitlan	city built on marshland in Lake Texcoco by the Aztec
nomads	move from place to place
Harappan civ. collapse	Floods, Earthquakes, Indus river changed course
Suttee	practice of the wife from a prominent family leap into the flames of her husbands cremating body.
Chandragupta	great Mauryan king (India)
Ziggurat	earliest form of a temple (square wedding cake)
Tutankhamen	Egyptian pharoah died at 19 - tomb tells us a lot about his civilization
Catal Huyuk	Neolithic city
Cahokia	largest North Am. city
caste	social goup in India one is born into and cannot change
Nebuchadnezzar	Chaldean King built the Hanging Gardens for his wife
Re	Most important of EGY gods
HatSHEpsut	Female pharoah of EGY
Brahmans	top of India's caste system
Aryans	conquered Harappans and most of India
Inca	South American civ
Pachacuit	EarthShaker, Incan leader
Ramses II	rules EGY for 66 yrs.
calendar	dating system
revolution	changes that affect many areas of life
Gupta	India's golden age