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WORLD CIVILIZATIONS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDEPrehistory - Answers-Before written language
History - Answers-Time when people can write down events
Artifact - Answers-Things people made that were left behind
Culture - Answers-A way of living with a group of people
Paleolithic - Answers-Old stone age
Neolithic - Answers-New stone age
Nomadic - Answers-One without a distinct settled home travel in small groups or tribes
Sedentary - Answers-Settle in one place
Cuneiform - Answers-Sumerian writing
Polytheism - Answers-The belief in many gods
Monotheism - Answers-The belief in one god
Mummification - Answers-The Egyptiams
Cultural Diffusion - Answers-When cultures spread and mix together with other cultures
Rivers and Civilizations - Answers-...
Rosetta Stone - Answers-A tablet that had a message in three languages
Chinese Emperors - Answers-Shi Hunadgi
Chin Dynasty
Cho Dynasty
Family based
Families get their mandate from heaven
Greek City-States - Answers-Athens and Sparta
Punic War - Answers-Long periods of 3 wars between Rome and Carthage
Democracy - Answers-How people do the selecting of Representatives
Rule by the people
government is controlled by citizens either directly or through representatives
, Tragedy - Answers-A serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or
betrayal
Comedy - Answers-Slapstick situations and crude humor
Illiad and Odyssey - Answers-Homer wrote them
Socrates - Answers-A greek Philosopher that never wrote anything down
Agriculture - Answers-Domestication of plants and animals
train animals to do work and eat them as food
Hammurabi - Answers-Babylonian ruler that created a single uniform code of laws that
enforced the fact that the government should take part and be aware of the events
happening in society
Phoenicians - Answers-Located on the Mediterranean Sea; borrowed some of the
Greek Gods and made their own; worked with glass, ivory, metal, and wood
Made the alphabet
Hieroglyphics - Answers-Egyptian Writing
Plato - Answers-A greek Philosopher that wrote the Republic
Said that the republic is a great form of government
Wrote what Socrates said
Aristotle - Answers-A greek philosopher that taught Alexander the Great
Taught ethics
Alexander the Great - Answers-Son of Philip of Macedonia
Ruler of Greece after father is assassinated
Twelve Tables - Answers-Roman set of written Laws
Carthage - Answers-Rome's major rival
Hannibal - Answers-Carthage's general
Rode an elephant through the Alps
Julius Caesar - Answers-1st Emperor of Rome
Augustus Caesar - Answers-2nd Emperor of Rome
Republic - Answers-A form of government in which power rests with representatives and
citizens who have the right to vote can vote for leaders
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