Ancient Civilizations
The time before written history.
What is 'prehistory'?
If Greeks were going to the local marketplace, they would be going to this location.
Agora
Commoners in Rome's republic
Plebians
Lowest ranking member of the feudal structure
Serf
Whereas the Middle Ages were characterized by a belief in superstitions, the Enlightenment emphasized this to advance human understanding.
Belief system that ordained a new dynasty by the gods.
Mandate of Heaven
Founder of the Society of Jesus.
Ignatius
The transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural lifestyles.
Neolithic Revolution
A government ruled by a small group of land-owning nobles.
Aristocracy
The first Roman Emperor of the Pax Romana.
Octavian Augustus
Cause of the Crusades
Control over Jerusalem
Belief that the solar system centers around the earth.
Geocentric theory
Code by which Japanese samurai lived.
Bushido
Trials during the Catholic Reformation for heretics.
Inquisition
One similarity between the ancient civilizations of China and Egypt.
Written forms of communication, river societies
Herodotus and Thucydides are two Greeks, most associated with this field of study.
History
Written legal system in Rome.
Twelve Tables
Another name for feudalism
Manorialism
Philosopher who believed humans were inherently selfish and corrupt.
Thomas Hobbes
While daoism and buddhism were religious systems, this philosophy emphasized relationships.
Confucianism
An order of Greek architecture. Noted for curved capital.
Ionic
Record keeping, Specialized workers, advanced technology, advanced cities. This is the fifth characteristic of civilization.
Complex Institutions
Golden Age Greek sculptors carved statues that represented this.
The ideal human form.
Cause of Rome's fall.
Frequent invasions
Cause for the end of feudalism.
Hundred Years' War / Longbow / declining power of church
This group gained the most economic and political power during the era of the Renaissance, exploration and the Enlightenment.
merchants
Dynasty which led China's 'Golden Age'
Tang Dynasty
Epic Greek poem regarding the Trojan War. Attributed to Homer.
Illiad
The first set of written laws.
Winner of the Peloponnesian War.
Sparta
The reason for Constantine's move of Rome's capital to Constantinople.
To be closer to the commercial centers of the East.
Impact of the Treaty of Verdun
Divided Charlemagne's Frankish Empire.
What type of government would Enlightenment thinkers most support?
Democracy
Chinese explorer who utilized new technologies to sail to new territories.
Zheng He
A book of oracles in ancient China.
I Ching