Early People
A person who gets food by hunting wild animals, and gathering wild plants, roots, nuts, and berries
What is a hunter-gatherer?
the act of supplying dry lands with water by means of canals, ditches, pipes and streams
what is irrigation?
philosophy that focuses on strict laws and harsh punishments to run society
what is legalism?
The two most famous city-states in ancient Greece
Where is Athens and Sparta?
Roman general who ended the Republic and ruled as dictator before being assassinated
Who is Julius Caesar?
A complex society with a stable food supply, specialization of labor, a government, and a highly developed culture
What is a civilization?
a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland
what is a city-state?
Dynasty that ruled China for over 400 years, including a 'Golden Age' of invention and discovery
What is the Han Dynasty?
a system of government in which the people rule, either directly or through elected representatives
what is democracy?
A member of the large class of ordinary citizens
Who are plebeians?
to train or adapt an animal or plant to live in a human environment, making it more useful to humans
What is domestication?
wedge-shaped characters made with a reed stylus and used in writing several ancient languages
what is cuneiform?
control of what people read or write or hear or see; efforts to prohibit free expression of ideas
what is censorship?
A system of government in which a few people rule, usually wealthy aristocrats
What is an oligarchy?
to murder someone, especially for political reasons
what is assassinate?
The history of humans before the development of writing
What is prehistory?
a fine-grained soil, often deposited on riverbanks during floods
what is silt?
Founder of Daoism, a philosophy based on harmony with nature
Who is Laozi? (Lao Tzu)
The Greek word for city-state
What is a polis?
in ancient Rome, a person from beyond the Roman frontier; person considered by another group to be uncivilized
what is a Barbarian?
in archaeology, the systematic digging of an area of ground to recover the archaeological record
what is excavation?
Hammurabi was the ruler of this ancient city
Where is Babylon?
Founder of the legendary Xia dynasty around 2000 BCE (probably didn't exist)
Who is Yu the Great?
a state slave in ancient Sparta
what is a helot?
Rome fought this city-state during the Punic Wars
Where is Carthage?