5 themes of geography
Location, place, human-environment interaction, movemnet region
Location
Relative location: what the location is close too
Absolute location: the exact coordinates of the location
Place
Human characteristics: human designed physical characteristics of a place
Physical Characteristics: natural features of the earth
Human environmemt interaction
Its how humans adapt to the environment through religion or whatever they want it to be
Movement
Movement of goods, ideas, and people
Region
Divides the worlds into sections so that we can study it
Patrician
Aristocrat, nobleman, highly ranked person
Plebian
Regular person in rankings
Judaism
An ancient monotheistic religion with the center of it being the torah which is the fundemental text
Christianity
Largest religion and believes that jesus is the son of god
Israelties
Semitic people of the the near east who inhabited part of caanan during the tribal and monarchic periods
Oligarchy
A government ruled by few powerful people
Monarchy
Ruled by a royal family, ex. King and queen
Limited democracy
The power of the people is limited to the borders of the constitution
Direct democracy
Known also as pure democracy, people decided what laws passed, rule based on citizenship, majority rule decides vote
Indirect democracy
People elect representatives who vote on laws on behalf of the people.
Senate
A group of people that advised the king, elected by people in the government
Twelve tables
The modern legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law
Cleisthenes
created the council of 500, tried to balance the rich and poor in the government, and fixed the constitution for Athens to set it on a democratic foot
Solon
Outlawed slavery, and got rid of debts. Created a class system, all free adult citizens could vote, and created the law that any citizen could bring charges against a wrong doer, statesman of Athens, Greece
Plato
A Greek philosopher and founder of the academy in Athens, first institution of higher learning in the western world.
Pericles
Most influential Greek statesman, orator and General of Athens during the golden age
Aristotle
Constituted the first comprehensive version of the western philosophy
Socrates
One of the founders of the western philosophy.
Hammurabi
King of Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE, member of amorite dynasty, United all of Mesopotamia under the Babylonian empire