Unit 1
Early human-like creatures that walked upright.
Hominid
the belief in more than one god.
polytheism
Known for their trading civilization by the Mediterranean Sea and a monopoly over the dye color “purple”
Phoenicians
one of two divisions of the Roman Empire that flourished in the Eastern.
Byzantine Empire
One of the causes that brought about the Middle Ages, a disease that spread across Europe and the World, cutting a third of the world population
the Black Plague
living in a fixed location; not migratory.
sedentary
the predominant religious and social system of India, characterized by a caste structure of society, belief in reincarnation, and many deities
Hinduism
a form of government in which power ultimately rests with the people, either directly or through elected representatives.
Democracy
in feudal societies, a person who is held in servitude on a lord's land.
Serf
the spreading of something more widely
diffusion
a North African country on the Mediterranean Sea; A major early civilization based on the Nile River
Egypt Civilization
in the religion of Islam, the name of the supreme deity.
Allah
the cultural capital of Greece in modern and classical times.
Athens
a system of economic and political organization, as in Europe and Japan in the Middle Ages, in which landholding lords granted lands to vassals in return for service and homage.
feudalism
the trade route whose extent went through North/NorthWest Africa, Europe and the Middle east
Trans-Saharan Trade Route
the earliest period of the Stone Age, from about 2 million B.C. to about 10,000 B.C., characterized by the use of primitive stone tools.
Paleolithic
a social structure in India in which one's class in society is determined by heredity.
caste system
A city-state with its own sovereignty (its own laws/authority)
Polis
the major European Empire prior to the Middle Ages, with a Geographic extent claiming most of the European continent.
Rome
a name given to the ancient trade routes between China and southern Europe, through southern Asia.
Silk Road
used by the ancient Egyptians, that uses pictorial symbols to represent words or sounds
Hieroglyphic
copied, modeled on, or extracted from something else.
Derivative
a dominant militaristic city in the southern part of ancient Greece and victor of the Peloponnesian War
Sparta
Religion created in the major Eastern-European Empire, the Byzantine Empire
Eastern Orthodoxy
The major Muslim trading Empire in the Middle Ages
Ottoman Empire