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Anciant history
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History
12th Grade
12/31/2010

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Term
Democracy
Definition
Government by all the eligible members of the population.
noun
The Government in the US is a democracy.
Term
Unearth
Definition
To uncover threw digging to find lost artifacts.
verb
The archeologist unearthed the ancient temple in Greece.
Term
labyrinth
Definition
Complex network of passages
noun
The students went threw a complex labyrinth which was the corn maze.
Term
odyssey
Definition
A long journey back home. also a epic by homer
noun
HOmer a Greek poet wrot
Term
deity
Definition
a god or goddess in polythistic religions.
noun
in ancient Greece Zeus was an important deity.
Term
oracle
Definition
a priest who acted with medium through advice of prophecies.
noun
their were oracles in ancient Greece.
Term
peninsula
Definition
land surrounded by 3 sides of water.
noun
Florida is a peninsula in the USA.
Term
lethal
Definition
sufficient and can cause death.
adjective
the liquid was lethal because all the people who tested it had died.
Term
myth
Definition
an anciant made up story that is not true.
noun
The ancient peoples of the world had different myths of their own.
Term
archeologist
Definition
a historian that digs for anciant artifacts of lost civilizations.
noun
Heinrich Schliemann was an archeologist.
Term
fortress
Definition
a military stronghold in a large town or city.
noun
In anciant cities their was a fortress in the city center.
Term
commercial
Definition
concern with or engage in commerce.
adjective
the ancient peoples made commercial buisnes .
Term
Plateau
Definition
a high plain of relitivley flat land.
noun
Their was a plateau in Athens Acropolis.
Term
decided
Definition
to come to a result or conclusion.
adjective
I decided to work hard in school so that i could go to a good college.
Term
repel
Definition
drive or force attackers away
verb
The Americans repelled the British troops in the revolutionary war.
Term
concept
Definition
an abstract idea.
noun
THe congress concept under obama inacted social healthcare.
Term
agrarian
Definition
relating to coltivted land.
adjective
Joseph Stalin finally set the Russians free from being an agrarian society to being an industrial giant.
Term
migration
Definition
to move from one place to another.
adjective
Their was a huge migration west in the mid 1800s.
Term
coherent
Definition
of an argument or theory or poelcy
adjective
their was a coherent idia that all people should have the right to vote.
Term
accumulation
Definition
the gradual gathering of something.
noun
The people accumulated a large deal of wealth.
Term
varied
Definition
a variety of different elemtents showing a variation.
adjective
the was a varied of different types of people at the concert.
Term
cult
Definition
a sytem of religous groups divoted to a cetian cause.
noun
The cult at the church was for the abolishments of abortion cliniks
Term
thrive
Definition
to grow and develop.
verb
We thrived when we were born and stop when we were an adult.
Term
diverse
Definition
showing a great variety off diffrent cultures or races.
adjective
The towns of Scarsdale is not very diverse.
Term
nominal
Definition
relating to names and the role of status.
adjective
The Vanderbilt are a nominal associated with wealth.
Term
paradox
Definition
a stament to contray a common belief.
noun
Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink
Term
polytheistic
Definition
a belief in one god.
noun
Religions such as Christianity is an example of a polytheistic religion.
Term
pictograph
Definition
a picture as a symbol for a word or phrase.
noun
Ancient original writing systems used pictographs.
Term
monorchy
Definition
a system of government headed by one leader usually a king or emperor.
noun
the UK has a constitutional monarchy.
Term
aristocracy
Definition
form of goverment ruled by the upper land holding class.
noun
Their was a form of aristocracy in ancient Greece
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