unit 1
What is an Artifact?
a human-made object, such as a tool, weapon, or a piece of jewelry.
What is an Artifact?
a form of culture characterized by cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.
What is civilization?
Filial piety - respect shown by children for their parents and elders.
What is filial piety?
Empire - a political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
What is an empire?
a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land.
What is feudalism?
a people's unique way of life, as shown by its tools, customs, arts, and ideas.
What is culture?
a city and its surrounding lands function as an independent political unit.
What is city-state?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible - the most sacred writings in the Jewish tradition.
What is torah?
Bureaucracy - a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government.
What is a bureaucracy?
Chivalry - a code of behavior for knights in medieval Europe, stressing ideals such as courage, loyalty, and devotion.
What is chivalry?
relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father.
What is patrilineal?
in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority.
What is mandate of heaven?
a mutual promise or agreement - especially an agreement between God and the Hebrew people as recorded in the Bible.
What is covenant?
the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
one of the professional warriors who served Japanese feudal lords.
What is samural?
the people - living, dead and unborn - who are descended from a common ancestor.
What is lineage?
a government in which power is in the hands of a few people - especially one in which rule is based on wealth.
What is oligarchy?
in Hinduism and Buddhism, the totality of the good and bad deeds performed by a person, which is believed to determine his or her fate after rebirth.
What is karma?
the adoption of a conqueror’s culture by the conquered people.
What is assimilation?
a medieval association of people working at the same occupation, which controlled its members; wages and prices.
What is a gulid?
Technology - the ways in which people apply knowledge, tools and inventions to meet their needs.
What is Technology?
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is theocracy?
one of the four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India - priests, warriors, traders, labor and untouchables.
What is caste?
Silk Roads - a system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods.
What iare silk roads?
a document requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court or judge so that is can be decided whether his or her imprisonment is legal.
What is habeas corpus?