Vocab 1
Time before humans invented writing.
Prehistory
Objects made by human beings.
Artifact
What does B.C. stand for?
Before Christ
What two parts are the past split into?
Prehistory and history
Where did the first civilization of India arise?
Along the Indus River
Good or service sold within a country that is produced in another country.
Import
Good or service produced within a country and sold outside the country's borders.
Export
An autobiography
Primary Resource
A world history textbook
A secondary source
What caused Sumer’s population to grow?
A dependable food supply enabled it to grow.
Hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”
Aristocracy
Government in which a small group of people rule.
Oligarchy
What helped Sumerians produce more food?
Improved Agricultural techniques helped them.
They were elite soldiers that made up the main part of the Persian army.
Immortals
A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
Greek victory over the Persian army that ended the first Persian war.
Battle of Marathon
Greek victory over the Persian navy during the Second Persian War.
Battle of Salamis
What is the role of the rabbi in Judaism?
The rabbi helps synagogue members understand the Bible and Talmud.
Politics is the practice of?
Government
How did the Assyrians become powerful warriors?
Frequent fighting
Religion of vedic India, based on priests and rituals, particularly sacrifices to the gods.
Brahmanism
Wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq.
Mesopotamia
What were the main political units in ancient Greece?
The polis.
What physical feature separates the subcontinent of India from the rest of Asia?
The Himalayas
“High city” in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city’s defenses were located.
Acropolis