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| Hegemony describes the preferable type of imperial ruler whose subjects follow them because they believe it is in their best interest to do so. |
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| Where the ruler of a people cannot get his subjects to follow him, he will impose his rule through sheer power |
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| A leader of an immigrant group of people who immigrated to Sumer, in the land known as Akkad. Sargon led his people, known as Akkadians, to victories over all of the leading cities Sumer and Northern Mesopotamia |
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| Invaders of the fertile crescent of either Semite or indo-european origin. |
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| A semitic group that invaded and conquered Sumer around 1900 BCE. They formed their own set of laws, the Hammurabi Code. |
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| Babylonian leader who defeated the remaining Sumerian independent city-states. Alos, famous for set of laws known as the Hammurabi Codes |
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| Indo-european invaders from north of Sumer. Indo-european languages influenced languages as far away as Britain. |
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| Invaders from the north of Sumer. They invented the two-wheeled chariot which was a decisive weapon of change. |
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| Descendants of Akkadians. Formed an independent state in the twentieth century BCE. Achieved prosperity through trade. |
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| A group that began a series of conquests between Mesopotomia and the Mediterranean around 900 BCE |
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| Immigrant semitic groups that ruled Lower Egypt between 1650-1550 BCE. Introduced bronze making, horses and chariots to Egypt. Expelled form Egypt upon the establishment of the New Kingdom around 1550 BCE |
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| Created Egypt's greatest historical empire by expanding its borders northeast to the Euphrates and south to Nubia |
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| Powerful ruler of Egypt who built the great temple at Abu Simbel |
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| One of the four female Pharoahs. |
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| Changed his name to Akhenaten, which means, "he who serve Aten." Change Egypt's state religion to montheistic worship of one god, Aten, from politheistic worship of multiple gods. |
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| The region south of Egypt that Egypt conquered and ruled. Nubia was the source of gold, minerals, wood and recruits for Egypt's army. Around 712 BCE Nubia conquered Egypt and ruled it for about 50 years. |
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| Persian emperor who defeated and unified the three great western kingdoms of Asia, Medes, Lydia and Babylonia, between 550-539BCE |
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| A province in the persian empire ruled by a governor known as a satrap. |
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| A religious teacher in Persia about 600 BCE. His faith, known as Zoroastrianism was followed by the great Persian leader Darius |
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| Early immigrants o the island of Crete. Known as great craftspeople who worked with brinze tools, gems and fine pottery |
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| The people of the leading city-state on mainland Greece. They were known as brave warriors and excellent sailor and traders. |
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| The name for a greek city |
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| The town market and main meeting place in a greek city |
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| A great city-state of Greece and home to the Acropolis, a famous ancient temple |
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| A system of government, first developed in Athens, where citizens have power over decisions through voting |
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| Athenian leader who in 600 BCE opened to all free men the right to vote in public assembly. Created the Council of Four Hundred, which represented the interests of the wealthy and noble, while the assembly represented the other free men. |
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| Athenian leader who refined democracy in Athens by dividing the government by location instead of class. So that representative from each part of the city were elected to the Assembly or the Council of (now) 500 |
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| A geographical area within Athens from which a representative was elected |
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| Soldiers who fought for Greece in the battle of Marathon against the Persians. The fought in a formation known as a phalanx in which 1000 men stood arm in arm protected by shields. |
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| A philosopher who taught future statesmen how to arge all sides of a position without taking a position. Sophist philosophers were opposed by Socrates who strongly believed in taking a position |
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| A war between Athens and Sparta beginning in 432 BCE |
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| A german word meaning practical politics, or decisions made by expediancy rather than ideological considerations |
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| A great macedonian leager who conquered Athens and then unified an empire from the mediterranean to India between 336-323 BCE |
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| Refers to the Greek culture in Alexander's vast empire from 320 BCE- 30 BCE |
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| A unified, urban culture spread among a vast empire. For example, Hellenistic culture in Alexander's empire |
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| the spreading of greek culture in the world |
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