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100
The study of people and cultures through their material remains
What is archeology?
100
An object made by human beings.
What is an artifact?
100
The art of beautiful handwriting
What is calligraphy?
100
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
The lawmaking body in government
What is a legislature?
200
A government that gives its citizens the ruling power.
What is a democracy?
200
Code of conduct for knights during the Middle Ages
What was chivalry?
200
A city-state in ancient Greece.
What is a polis?
200
In the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks.
What was cuneiform?
200
A rapid rise in prices
What is inflation?
300
In the Middle Ages, an association of merchants or artisans who cooperate to uphold standards of their trade and to protect their economic interests.
What was a guild?
300
A religious belief opposed to official teachings.
What is heresy?
300
The divine ruler of ancient Egypt
Who was a pharaoh?
300
The legislature of England, and later of Great Britain
What is Parliament?
300
The basic military unit of the Roman army
What was a legion?
400
A formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense.
What is an alliance?
400
During the Middle Ages, a written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town.
What is a charter?
400
The Hindu belief of the rebirth of the soul in another bodily form
What is reincarnation?
400
The banishing of a public figure
What is ostracism?
400
A wanderer, usually in search of food.
Who is a nomad?
500
A group of states and territories controlled by one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
The way of life of a group of people that is handed down from one generation to the next.
What is culture?
500
The highest and most fortified point within a Greece city-state
What is an acropolis?
500
A soldier paid to serve in a foreign army.
Who is a mercenary?
500
To exclude someone from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church law.
What is excommunication?