World History Midterm Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Geography | The study of people, their enviroments, and the resources available to them. |
| Archaeology | The study of the ways of life of early peoples through the examination of their physical remains. |
| Artifact | Objects made by people. |
| Old Stone Age | The earliest period of human history. |
| Nomad | Person who moves from place to place in search of food. |
| Glacier | A huge sheet of ice. |
| City-state | A political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding land. |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another through trade and warfare. |
| Delta | Triangular area of marshland formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of some rivers. |
| Mummification | The preservation of the dead. |
| Ziggurat | A pyrimid-shaped temple built by the Sumerians. |
| Satrap | Governor of a province of the Persian empire. |
| Monotheistic | Teaching a belief in one God. |
| Hatshepsut | Egyptian queen who encouraged trade with lands along the eastern Mediterranean. |
| Ramses II | Pharaoh who spread Egyptian rule northward to Syria and conquered Nubia. |
| Hammurabi | Ruler who published a code of laws to help unite Babylonian. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | King who encouraged Babylonian learning. |
| Darius | Ruler who united the Persian empire. |
| Subcontinent | A large landmass that juts out from a continent. |
| Brahman | A single spiritual power that resides in all things. |
| Mystic | Devotes his/her life to seeking spiritual truth. |
| Rajah | The cheif of an Aryan tribe. |
| Ideograph | The term for a sign that expresses a thought or an idea. |
| Calligraphy | An artisitic form of hand-writing done with ink and a brush. |
| Dynastic Cycle | The rise and fall of dynasties. |
| Feudalism | A system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owned militia service and other kinds of support to the ruler. |
| Shiva | Hindu god known as the destroyer. |
| Siddhartha Gautama | The "Enlighted One" who founded Buddhism. |
| Chandragupta Maurya | Ruler who established the first great Indian empire. |
| Asoka | Maurya emperor who paved the way for the spread of Buddhism throughout Asia. |
| Confucius | Chinese philosopher who believed that people were naturally good. |
| Hanfeizi | Chinese philosopher who taught the "the nature of man is evil". |
| Shi Huangdi | Emperor who united China and built the Great Wall. |
| Liu Bang | Emperor who founded the Han Dynasty. |
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