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World History EXAM
Chapter 1-6 Vocab & T or F
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History
9th Grade
01/09/2009

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The record of events since writing developed 5000 years ago.
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History
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What humans acquire by living together and language.
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Culture
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Found footprints of early human like creatures.
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Mary Leakey
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Wanderers who travel from place to place in search of food.
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Nomad
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Method of supplying water based on ditches and canals
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Irrigation
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Excavate ancient settlements and artifacts.
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Archaeologist

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Artifact
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Material objects shaped by human beings.
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Large slowly moving masses of snow and ice.
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Glacier
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Skilled craft worker.
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Artisan
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Highly organized society's that link people together.
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Civilization.
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Study the skeletal remains of early human-like creatures.
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Anthropologist
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Different people performing different tasks
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Division of labor.
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Spread of culture from one part of the world to another.
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Cultural diffusion
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Four periods of extremely cold weather 1.5 million years ago
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Ice age
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One of the several valleys where neolithic people settled.
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Nile River Valley
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Domesticated Animals are untamed and can't help people.

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False
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A shift from food gathering to producing was called the Neolithic Revolution.

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True.
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A calender month was based on movements of the sun.

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False
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Donald Johnson discovered a female species he eventually named Lucy.

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True
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Cro-Magnon people are known for their invention of the spear.

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True
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Blacksmiths, Farmers, and Carpenters are considered to be artisans.

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True
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Radiocarbon dating was used to determine the sex of a certain species.

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False
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Neanderthal people lived some 30,000-100,000 years ago.

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True
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People living after writing was developed were part of prehistory.

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False
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The Huang He River Valley is the one location where the Neolithic people settled.

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True
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Egyptians used to make smooth materiel to write on.
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Papyrus
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Changed the Persian philosophy of religion.
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Pharaoh
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First Woman to gain pharaoh status
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Hatsheput
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Included a town and the surrounding land it controlled
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City-State
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What we call Sumerian writing today
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Cuneiform
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The most striking Sumerian buildings.
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Ziggurats
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City- State built in the name of the Assyrians chef God.
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Assur
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Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
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Hanging Gardens
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Fertile soil carried as sediment through rivers
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Silt
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The belief in one God.
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Monotheism
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Professional soldiers paid to serve in a foreign army.
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Mercenaries
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Tutankhamen moved to the capital city back to Thebes and restored polytheism

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True
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The Nile River is 4187.

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True
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The arch was a weak structure built over an opening.

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False
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The Hittites invaded the North America from Asia Minor.

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False
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A cavalry was military riders on horseback.

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True
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Nebuchadnezzar ruled and rebuilt Babylon between 605 and 562 B.C.

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True
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David and Solomon were the eventual kings of the fertile crescent.

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False
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The old Kingdom was also called the Pyramid Age.

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True
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The book of the dead was a guide to the afterlife.

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True
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The Rosseta Stone was the key to reading heliography symbols.

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True
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Provided migrating tribes with a path into India.
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Khyber Pass
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Important priests in the Vedic Age.
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Brahmans
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A prince who rules each city-state.
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Rajah
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Peasants bound to work in the fields
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Sudras
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Seasonal winds names for the direction that they blow.
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Monsoons
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Became known as Buddha.
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Gautama
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First doctor to sterilize wounds.
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Susruta
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500-1000 B.C.
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Vedic Age.
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Women committing suicide for their husbands
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Suttee
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Merchants, traders, and small farmers.
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Vaisyas
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A famous Buddhist monastic university.
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Nalanda
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Watched over the world through his eye, the sun
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Varuna
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Hindu belief that God and humans are together as one.
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Monism
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Long poems describing poems and great events.
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Epic
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The great literature of the Ayron religion.
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Vedas
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The official religion of India was Hindu.

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True
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Most of the rainfall in India takes place over a 9 month period.

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False
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The Aryan civilization left the ruins of cities that they destroyed

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True
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The Mahabharata tells the story of a Great Civil War.

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True
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The Kshatriya were at the bottom of the social scale.

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False
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The Caste System first began in Northern Africa.

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False
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Dharma was fulfillment of ones moral duty in life.

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True
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Buddha stressed ethics and a code of moral duty in life.

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True
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A series of fables from the Gupta period were called the Aryabhata.

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False
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The Golden Age is the age of the Gupta rulers.

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True
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The material that gives the water a yellowish tint.
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Loess
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Policy developed for the rise and fall of prices on farm products.
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Leveling
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Record of your family tree.
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Genealogy
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Ideas and teachings of Confucius as known by his followers.
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Analets
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Characters in a line that rub from top to bottom.
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Calligraphy.
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Fine white clay used to produce items on a pottery wheel.
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Kaolin
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Cattle bones and tortoise shells used to help tell the future.
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Oracle bones
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Needles that enable life-force energy to move properly.
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Acupuncture
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The only civilized land.
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Zhongguo
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The Chang Jiang River is also known as China's Sorrow.

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False
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The Qin Ling is the mountain range separating China's two most important rivers.

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True
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The monarchs gave the Gods the right to rule during the Mandate of Heaven.

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False
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The Yin talks about the female and the Yang talks about the male.

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True
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During the Shang Dynasty the rulers called themselves the Sons of Heaven.

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False
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Liu Bang overthrew the Qin in 202 B.C and founded the Han Dynasty.

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True
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Confucianism taught people about the importance of self, children and the future.

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False
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Daoism helps you to bring yourself into harmony by being thoughtful and humble.

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True
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The Great Wall of China was constructed during the Zhou dynasty.

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False
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Wu Di was the most famous ruler of the Han Dynasty.

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True
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British archeologist who discovered the ruins of Knossos.
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Arthur Evans
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Traditional Stories about the Gods and Goddesses.
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Myths
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A good service sold to another country.
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Export
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The home of the Gods.
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Mount Olympus
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Blind Poet who composed the Odyssey.
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Homer
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Rhetoric is the study of public speaking and debating.

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True
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Representative democracy is where the citizens represent themselves.

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False
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Cleisthens eventually seized power in Athens and opposed the division of classes.

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True
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Ephors were overseers who elected the Assembly for 4 year terms.

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False
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Aristocracies are another name for Greek City-States.

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True
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Apollo at Delphi was the most famous myth of Greek culture.

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False
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The Dorians evolved after the fall of the Mycenaeans.

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True
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The Northern section of Greece was called the Peleponnesus.

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False
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An agora is a public meeting place where the most people would gather.

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False
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Tyrants seized power by force and ruled together in large groups.

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False
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Represents the zenith of Greek influence in the ancient world. After the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great. Macedonian Kingdoms were established throughout south-west-asia(the near'and middle east.)
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Hellenistic Age
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The Greeks were the first people to write plays or containing action or dialogue and usually involving conflict and emotion. They excelled in this form of literature and always wrote plays in poetic form.
Definition
Drama
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Excessive Pride in themselves or their Accomplishments.
Definition
Hubris
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A group of soldiers trained and equipped to fight on foot.
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Infantry
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The Finest speakers, in all Athenian history, led the opposition to Phillip in Athens.
Definition
Orator
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The study of the most fundamental questions of reality and human existence.
Definition
Philosophy
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In Greek tragedies, the main character struggled against fate; usually a combination of outside forces overcame the central character.
Definition
Tragedy
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Originated at the festival honoring Dionysus, mocked ideas and people.
Definition
Comedy
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Consisted of rows of soldiers standing soldier to shoulder and equipped with pikes as long as 21 feet.
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Phalanx
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The Chief temple of the goddess Athena built on the acropolis at Athens between 447 and 432 B.C.
Definition
Parthenon
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Empire in which the emperor has total power.
Definition
Autocracy
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Chinese peace through most of Asia
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Pax Sinica
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Worked for 18,000 years to create the universe.
Definition
Pan Gu
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Founded Daoism in the year 500 B.C
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Laozi
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The first emperor of Qin Dynasty
Definition
Shi-Huangdi
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Concerned with Politics, and believed in power, not virtue.
Definition
Legalism
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A fort or refuge in a time of danger
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Polis
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Male slave in charge of caring for the boys
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Pedagogue
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A hill or Mountain together with temples and buildings
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Acropolis
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Paintings made on wet plaster walls
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Frescoes
Term
Archon in 612 B.C who developed a code of laws.
Definition
Draco
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Agriculture laborers who were forced to work
Definition
Helots
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Meaning wise, conducted school for the older boys
Definition
Sophists
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Greatest Athenian Leader of all time
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Pericles
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Time periods in 4 year frames
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Olympiads
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