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History Final Exam
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History
9th Grade
05/27/2006

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technology
Definition
tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs
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nomad
Definition
a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
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bureaucracy
Definition
government with nonelective government officials
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empire
Definition
group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
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theocracy
Definition
A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
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republic
Definition
system of government in which officials are choosen by the poeple aka a demacracy
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fuedalism
Definition
loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord
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historian
Definition
person who studies how people lived in the past
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Paleolithic/Old Stone Age
Definition
the earliest period of human history
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Infrastructure
Definition
the basic structure or features of a system or organization
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civilization
Definition
complex, highly organized social order
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monarchy
Definition
government where there is one sole ruler
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dictator
Definition
ruler who has complete control over a government
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dynastic cycle
Definition
rise and fall of Chinese dynasties according to the mandate of heaven
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geography
Definition
study of people, their environment and their resources
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Neolithic Age/New Stone Age
Definition
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artisan
Definition
skilled craftworker
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matrilineal
Definition
family in which kinship ties are traced through the mother
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oligarchy
Definition
government in which ruling power belongs to a few people
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mandate of heaven
Definition
right to rule from god/ the heavens
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matriarchal
Definition
mother is the head of the family
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longitude
Definition
distance east or west of the prime meridian
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Agricultural Revolution
Definition
the time when nomads began to settle and grow their own food
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scribe
Definition
person who writes the history records
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patrilineal
Definition
family kinship is traced throught the father
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law of succession
Definition
plan for who will rule after the current ruler dies
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polytheistic
Definition
belief in many gods
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patriarchal
Definition
father is the head of the family
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latitude
Definition
distance north or sout of the equator
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features of a civilization
Definition
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cultural diffusion
Definition
the blending and/or spreading of different cultures
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domestication
Definition
to tame animals and adapt crops for the purpos of cultivation
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democracy
Definition
government in which people elect the leaders aka a republic
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monotheistic
Definition
belief in only 1 god
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B.C.E/B.C
Definition
before the common era
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A.D.
Definition
amino domini- in the year of our lord
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C.E.
Definition
commone era
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archeology
Definition
the study of past peopl and cultures
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artifact
Definition
objects made by human beings that are studied to find out about the past
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anthropology
Definition
the study of origins and development of people and their societies
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prehistory
Definition
time before the written record
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