Unit 2 Study Guide

A religion that follows Hindu

Hindu God considered the creator of the world

Hindu God considered the preserver of the world

Hindu God considered the destroyer of the world

Priests, warriors, peasants or traders, and non-Aryan laborers or craftsmen

Aryan society, a member of the social class made up of priests

Rulers and warriors

Peasants and traders

Laborers

Laborers

In Hinduism and Buddhism the total of good and bad deeds preformed by a person which is believed to determine his or her fate

People who follow the religion Judaism

Founder of Judaism

An important person of Judaism

The current place of where Judaism was founded

Important person of Judaism

Belief in one God

A mutual promise or agreement- especially an agreement between God and the Hebrew people as recorded in the Bible

A southwest Asian kingdom that controlled a large empire from about 850 to 612 B.C.

Last Assyrian king

people who lived in Chaldea and were renamed astronomers and astrologers

A Chaldean king

A person who lived in Persia

Founder of Achaemenid empire

A governor of a providence in the Persian Empire

Founder of Zoroastrianism

Third king of the Persian empire

A Greek city-state the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C

A government in which power is in the hands of a single person

A Government in which power is in the hands of a few people- especially one in which ruler is based upon wealth

A powerful individual who gained control of a city-states government by appealing to the poor for support

A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility

A government controlled by its citizens, either directly or through representatives

A government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives

A thinker who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and, morality

Seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from about 2000 to 1400 B.C.

Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.

a war lasting from 431 to 404 B.C. Sparta and its allies won

A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and sheilds

Relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second cenury

A form of Government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leaders are elected by citizens who have the right to vote

In ancient Rome the supreme governing body, originally made up of only aristocrats

In ancient Rome, a political leader given absolute power to make laws and command the army for a limited time

Patrician is wealthy, Plebian is dirt poor

In ancient Rome, a group of three leaders sharing control of the Government

Three wars between Rome and Carthage. Resulted in the destruction of Carthage and Romes dominance over the western mediterranean

A large ring building where games like chariot races would take place

A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire

Founds Justinian, is emperor of Rome

The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian

A warrior for Troy

Manners

the twelve tables of Justinian?

A military unit of the ancient Roman army, made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers and a group of soldiers on horseback

A decline in the value of money, accompanied by a raise in the prices of goods and services

A religion that believes in "God" or "Jesus"

The God for Christianity

The bishop of Rome, head of the Roman Catholic Church

An ancient culture that developed from a blending of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cutlures

The taking away of a persons right of membership in a Christian Church

A religious image used by eastern Christians

A principal