HISTORY VOCAB

• HELLENISTIC


  The mixture of Greek and Persian cultures under Alexander
• City-states


  Independent cities and their surrounding lands (small kingdoms)
• Pantheon


  Roman temple to all deities
• Old and New Testament


  The holy scriptures of Christianity
• Doctrine


  The teachings of the Christian church
• Monastery


  A religious community of men who have taken religious vows
• Pax Romana


  200-year period of Roman peace
• Icons


  Religious images used in Christianity
• Moores


  Muslims of Spain
• Parthenon


  Greek temple to Athena
• Secular


  Refers to non-religious organizations/beliefs
• Code of Draco


  Codified law of ancient Greece
• Zoroastrianism


  Early Persian religion with a belief in the forces of good and evil
• Citizen


  A person who can take part in the governing of society
• Cradles of civilizations


  Term describing river valleys as the beginning of civilization
• Mosaic


  Form of artwork using pieces of tile and glass to create images
• Stonehenge


  Giant circles of stone in England probably used for religious ceremonies
• Peloponnesian Wars


  Wars fought between the Spartans and Athenians
• Usury


  The practice of lending money and charging interest, which was opposed by the church
• Cuneiform


  Pictograms used in Sumer
• Carbon dating


  Method of telling the approximate age of an artifact or fossil
• Renaissance


  Period of renewed interest in classical culture during the late medieval period
• 10 Commandments


  Moral law code of Judaism and Christianity
• Neolithic Age


  Era characterized by development of agriculture, domesticated plants and animals
• Ottoman Turks


  Islamic group that conquered Constantinople around 1300 AD
• Archaeologist


  Person who uses artifacts and fossils to determine past human events
• Hagia Sophia


  Early Christian church in Constantinople incorporating the dome on a rectangle
• Empire


  A political unit composed of the kingdom and all of the conquered lands
• Golden Age of Pericles/Classical Age


  Period where Greece reached its cultural height
• Dynasty


  The passing of leadership from father to son
• Greco-Roman


  The mix of Greek and Roman culture
• Silk Road


  Overland trade route that connected China to Western Europe
• Cyrillic alphabet


  Adapted from the Greek alphabet to represent the Slavic languages
• Crusades


  Religious wars to regain Middle Eastern holy sites, especially Jerusalem by Christianity
• Code of Justinian


  Codified law of the Byzantine Empire
• Pictogram


  The earliest form of writing by man
• Dome of the Rock

  Holy mosque built on a site in Jerusalem from where Muhammad ascended to heaven
• Clan


  Interrelated groups of people
• Money economy


  The exchange of goods for coins
• Persian Wars


  Wars fought between the Persians and Greeks