Ancient Mesopotamia
Fine partials of fertile soil
What is silt?
Fan shaped area of silt near where a river flows into the sea
what is a delta?
Body of land with water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Person who someone is descended from
What is a ancestor?
Ordianary citizens in ancient Rome
What are Plebeians?
A person who copies or writes out documents often a record keeper
What is a scribe?
Writing system made up of a combination of picture and sound symbols
What is hieroglyphics?
Group of people living in a new territory who have ties to there home land
what is a Colony?
Chinese system of beliefs which describes the way a king must rule
What was dao?
To reject
what does it mean to veto?
Two main rivers in Mesopotamia
What were the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
Government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader
What was a theocracy?
Greek city state
What is a polis?
system of beliefs based on the teachings of confucius
What is Confucianism?
Large farming estes
what is a Latifundia?
What is a code?
Process of treating a body to keep it from decaying
What is embalming?
Gathering place- marketplace in ancient Greece
What is a agora?
chinese philosophy that stressed the importance of the laws
What was legalism?
Three rulers who share equal political power
What is a Triumvirate?
A person who studies the planets and he stars
What is a astronomer?
A bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage barns
what is a shadoof
Group of armed foot soldiers in ancient greece arranged close together in rows
What was a Phalanx?
Farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in cash a a share of the crop
What is a tenant farmer?
Time period that was known as roman peace
What was the Pax Romania?