The Earliest People
Humans learned to control this to cook and scare off predators
'between the rivers' in ancient Greek
Mesopotamia
the ideas of Confucius, emphasizing such values as family, tradition and mutual respect
Confucianism
empire that Greece fought, ruled by Darius then Xerxes
Persia
Roman general who ended the Republic and ruled as dictator, assassinated by stabbing
Julius Caesar
the science and business of raising animals and plants to supply food for humans
agriculture
the belief in more than one god
polytheism
strict philosophy that believed that all humans are bad
a marketplace in ancient Greece, commonly used as a meeting place
agora
either of the two main elected officials of the ancient Roman Republic
consul
To train or adapt an animal or plant to live in a human environment, making it more useful to humans
domesticate
wedge-shaped characters made with a reed stylus and used in writing several ancient languages
cuneiform
control of what people read or write or hear or see; efforts to prohibit free expression of ideas
censorship
a system of government in which the people rule, either directly or through elected representatives
democracy
a member of the small class of wealthy families in ancient Rome
patrician
a fine-grained soil, often deposited on river banks during floods
silt
a nation and the other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one leadership
empire
a series of rulers from the same family
dynasty
a slave in ancient Sparta
Helot
the supreme council of state in the Roman Republic
senate
a complex society with a stable food supply, specialization of labor, a government, and a highly developed culture
civilization
Babylonian ruler, created code of written laws
Hammurabi
a type of organization structured like a pyramid, with one person at the top and many at the bottom; workers at each level supervise those below them
bureaucracy
Greek mathematician and father of geometry
Euclid
the name of the last king of Rome
Tarquinus Superbus