World History Unit 1 Test

Location, place, human-environment interaction, movemnet region

Relative location: what the location is close too Absolute location: the exact coordinates of the location

Human characteristics: human designed physical characteristics of a place Physical Characteristics: natural features of the earth

Its how humans adapt to the environment through religion or whatever they want it to be

Movement of goods, ideas, and people

Divides the worlds into sections so that we can study it

Aristocrat, nobleman, highly ranked person

Regular person in rankings

An ancient monotheistic religion with the center of it being the torah which is the fundemental text

Largest religion and believes that jesus is the son of god

Semitic people of the the near east who inhabited part of caanan during the tribal and monarchic periods

A government ruled by few powerful people

Ruled by a royal family, ex. King and queen

The power of the people is limited to the borders of the constitution

Known also as pure democracy, people decided what laws passed, rule based on citizenship, majority rule decides vote

People elect representatives who vote on laws on behalf of the people.

A group of people that advised the king, elected by people in the government

The modern legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law

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

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

A Greek philosopher and founder of the academy in Athens, first institution of higher learning in the western world.

Most influential Greek statesman, orator and General of Athens during the golden age

Constituted the first comprehensive version of the western philosophy

One of the founders of the western philosophy.

King of Babylon from 1792-1750 BCE, member of amorite dynasty, United all of Mesopotamia under the Babylonian empire