artifacts
object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest |
barter economy
a system of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money |
Buddhism
a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha |
caste system
a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity |
Chinese civilization
a country of eastern Asia, ancient civilization traditionally dates to c. 2700 b.c |
Christianity
the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history |
city states
a state consisting of a sovereign city |
command economy
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government |
constitutional monarchies
a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the guidelines of a constitution |
dictatorship
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator |
Egypt civilization
a country of northeast Africa and the Sinai Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea, in ancient times it was a flourishing kingdom and one of the earliest known civilizations |
feudal system
the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war |
Greek civilization
ancient Greece was an ancient civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. |
Hinduism
the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal |
impact
forceful consequence; strong effect; influencing strongly |
Incan civilization
the Andean civilizations made up a loose patchwork of different cultures that developed from the highlands of Colombia to the Atacama Desert |
irrigation
supplying water to the land to help crops grow |
Islam
the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran |
Judaism
the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud |
lake
a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal; a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land |
market economy
an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices |
Mayan civilization
noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems |
migration
movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
monarchy
government under a single ruler |
nomadic
leading a wandering life with no fixed abode; changeable; unsettled |
oligarchy
government by a few persons, especially by a small faction of persons or families |
peninsula
a piece of land almost completely surrounded by water but joined to a larger mass of land |
physical regions
natural region is a basic geographic unit |
plateau
highland; upland; relatively flat highland |
political
of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power; of or relating to the profession of governing |
representative democracy
a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy |
Roman civilization
the history of Rome spans 2,800 years of the existence of a city that grew from a small Latin village in the 9th century BC into the center of a vast civilization that dominated the Mediterranean region for centuries |
settlement patterns
distribution of human settlements on the landscape |
