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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| holy book of judaism | torah |
| holy book of christianity | bible |
| holy book of islam | Quran |
| founder of judaism | Moses & Ambraham |
| founder of christianity | Jesus Christ |
| founder of islam | Muhammad |
| judaism monotheistic or polytheistic | monotheistic |
| christianity monotheistic or polytheistic | monotheistic |
| islam monotheistic or polytheistic | monotheistic |
| what are the 5 characteristics of a civilization | Religion, Government, economy, technology, arts |
| Theocracy | system of government in which priest rule in the name of god. |
| neolithic revolution | the transition form hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement |
| mesopotamia | ancient region of southwestern Asia in present day Iraq |
| fertile crescent | area of fertile land in the middle east. |
| Hammurabi's code | is a well-preserved Babylonian law code dating back to about 1772 BC. |
| what are some of Sumerian inventions | lunar calender, wheels, writing, water wheel |
| Define Caliph | the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler regarded as the successor of Muhammad |
| Israel & Palestine Relationship | both think that Iraq belongs to them and they went to fight each other. |
| Zionism | a movement to protect the Jewish nation in Israel |
| Palestinian Liberation Organization | a political and military organization formed in 1964 to unite various Palestinian Arab groups |
| OPEC | organization of the petroleum exporting countries. |
| Arab spring | Pro- democracy uprisings currently sweeping the middle east. |
| 1991 Persian gulf war | US destroyed much of the military capability of Iraq and drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait |
| six day war | tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israeli won. |
| polis | A city- state in ancient Greece |
| minoan | A bronze age civilization centered on create its people or its language. |
| mycenae | an ancient city in Greece the center of Mycenaean civilization. |
| monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head. |
| aristocracy | a form of government in which power is held by the nobility. |
| oligarchy | a state governed by such a group like a organization |
| republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people |
| direct democracy | is a form of democracy and a theory of civics in much sovereignty is lodged. |
| Socratic method | A method of teaching by question and answer used in Socrates. |
| homer | is the author of the Iliad and the odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. |
| Illiad | A Greek epic poem ascribed to homer, telling how Achilles killed hector at the climax of the Trojan war. |
| Golden age of athens | used to denote the historical age in classical Greece lasting from the end of the Persian wars. |
| Alex the Great | king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria. |
| empire | An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority. |
| plebeians | a member of the lower social classes |
| patricians | a member of a long established wealthy family |
| pax Romana | the peace that existed between nationalities within the roman empire |
| Byzantine Empire | formed from the eastern part of the roman empire. it ended with a loss of Constantinople |
| feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe in which land granted by the crown to the nobility was in turn held by vassals. |
| fief | a person's sphere of operation or control |
| lord | a man of noble rank or high office |
| vassal | A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage. |
| knight | a man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor. |
| serf | an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. |
| manor | a large country house with lands |
| black death | the great epidemic of subsonic plague that killed a large part of the population of Europe in the mid 14th century. |
| role of the church during the middle ages | the culture and style of art and arch |
| renaissance | the culture and style of art and architecture developed during this Ara. |
| donatello | painted bronze statues |
| Leonardo DA vinci | painted the Mona Lisa. and also the man of the renaissance |
| michelangelo | Painted the David statute |
| Rafael | was an Italian painter and architect of the high renaissance |
| Medici family | was a political dynasty banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence |
| patrons of arts | patronage it the support, encouragement, privileged or financial aid that an organization bestows to another |
| machiavelli | Italian statesman and political philosopher |
| Johann Gutenberg | German painter who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and first to use a press. |
| indulgences | the stare or attitude of being indulgent or tolerant. |
| reformation | a 16th century movement for the reform of abuse in the roman catholic church endings in the establishment of the reformed. |
| Martin Luther | German theologian who led the reformation |
| age of exploration | was a period starting in the early 15th century and counting to the 17th century. |
| who were the Bedouins | members of a nomadic tribe of Arabs. |
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