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| Newer way of saying BC (before christ) |
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| Newer way of saying AD (after christ) |
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| Long time periods before 10,000 BC when much of earth was covered with snow |
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| Old and than New period when humans used mainly rocks and wood rather than metals |
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| Continent with china, japan, india |
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| Old term for turkey and surrounding nations |
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| Narrow land strip connecting North and South america |
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| Mountain chain seperating india from the rest of Asia |
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| Largest mountain range in North America |
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| Largest mountain range in South America |
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| River running through Egypt |
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| Mountains seperating Italy from the rest of Europe |
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| Along with the Indus the most important river in India |
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| Great desert in northern Africa |
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| General term for grasslands in Africa |
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| General term for the flat grasslands of Russia |
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| General term for jungles of africa |
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| Most important river in South America |
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| Narrow waterway betwen Alaska and Russia |
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| Sea touching Italy, Greece, Spain, and North Africa |
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| Body of water south of US |
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| Body of water south of US |
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| Term for flat lands in russia |
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| a scientist who studies different cultures to find how they lived and what they believed |
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| A scientist who studies languages |
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| General term for things people used in the past, such as tools, weapins, utensils |
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| Making once wild animals useful to man by training |
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| Slab of rock in both Greek and hieroglyphics allowing for the translation of the latter (hieroglyphics) |
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| Stiff, plant-wood based kind of "paper" created in Egypt |
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| Type of writing in Sumeria |
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| Layer cake type of building in SUmeria used for religious purposes |
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| Land in the Middle East shaped like a "C" running along the Mediterranean Sea and between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
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| Civilization that ruled in what is now Iran in 1400[s |
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| civilization which ruled over much of India in the 1400s |
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| General term meaning belief in many gods |
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| General term meaning belief in many gods |
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| term for the spirits that inhabit all of nature according the the japanese |
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| hindu belief that life is an illusion |
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| founder of the jewish faith |
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| term for the revolt against the catholic church which led to the creation of protestant religions |
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| to remove or throw out of an organized religion |
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| persian founder of a religion in which good and evil are in perpetual battle |
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| means the escape of the jews from egypt to get to the promise land |
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| leader of the jews to the promise land |
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| general term for sacred agreement |
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| first five books of the bible which are most important to jews |
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| first religious books of india |
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| indian aristocats; the ruling class |
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| indian books explaining the vedas |
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| chinese religuous teacher who stressed rules for living rather than theology |
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| general term for the issues of what is right or wrong |
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| greek blind man who wrote the iliad and odyssey |
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| greek scholar- father of history |
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| general term for the study of ideas about god, heaven, hell |
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| greek expression for teacher |
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| study of how to use the language in writing or speech |
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| greek temple to goddes athena |
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| goverment annoying greek philospher who was executed for corrupting minds of the young |
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| muhammad's flight from mecca when attacked |
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| islamic concept meaning to fight to defend the faith |
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| islamic version of church |
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| general term meaning ruler of the islamic religion |
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| general term meaning muslims who lived and ruled in Spain |
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| general term for islamic holy man and teacher |
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| christian boys captured by ottoman turks and trained to be soldiers |
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| all people vote on all issues |
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| people elect representatives who pass laws and run the goverment |
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| general term for the richest and supposedly the best people of a society, the elite |
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| another word for fictator, autocrat; originated in greece. |
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| general term for rulers in egypt |
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| general term for a line of rulers from the same family |
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| system of trading good rather than using money |
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| caravan route from china to europe |
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| greek city of soldiers which defeated athens after very long war circa 300 BC |
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| general term for the romans who were rich and "special" and ruled roman society |
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| general term for romans who were average everyday people with no special rights |
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| goverment officials elected by romans to protect average people from the very rich and powerful of the senate |
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| roman brothers, both beaten to death by the rich, when they tried to help the poor |
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| expression meaning world peace was maintained by roman military power |
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| general term for arabian nomads |
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| ethnic group origintating in north of china |
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| general term for japanese rulers supposedly in the service of the emperor |
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| code of honor for samurai |
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| honor saving suicide for disgraced samurai |
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| chinese "ponytail," originally a symbol of submission to the ruler |
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| greatest builder of monuments in egypt |
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| in hellenistic times he conquered greece, the middle east and much of india before dying young |
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| caeser's good friend whose involvment with cleopatra led to his defeat and death |
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| she was not egyptian but still the queen of egypt |
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| caesar's nephew who turned rome into a dictatorship |
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| babylonian ruler who wrote down the law for all to read in circa 1800BC |
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| first roman emperor to become a christian, clearing the way for christianity to become the official religion of the rome empire |
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| in AD 500s he pushed the Byzantine Empire to greatness |
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| ruler of the rus, sometimes called the father of russia |
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| first great ruler of ottoman turks |
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| greatest ottoman turk ruler who captured many parts of eastern europe |
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| mongol ruler of china circa 1200 |
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