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World History Study Guide to 1648 (view source)
Revision as of 05:20, September 3, 2011
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|[[Aesop]]
|[[Aesop]]
|Ethiopian slave in 600s B.C. in Greece. Famous for ''Aesop's Fables'', such as "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".
|a Greek writer famous for writing ''Aesop's Fables'' (around 600 B.C.), such as "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing".
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|[[Alexander the Great]]
|[[Alexander the Great]]
|[[Alluvial]]
|[[Alluvial]]
|A deposit of sediment (alluvium) in a river bed.
|A deposit of sediment (alluvium) in a river bed.
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|archons
|in the early Greek empire (around 700 B.C.), archons were government officials elected by the land-owning aristocrats. The archons then made the law.
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|[[Arianism]]
|[[Arianism]]
|[[Dorians]]
|[[Dorians]]
|Tribes that settled in Greece between 1100 BC and 1000 BC, and had a military ruling class, which persisted in Sparta and Crete even after democracy was established in Athens. These tribes created the simplest style of Greek architecture, known as the Doric order, which consisted of unadorned, straight columns.
|Tribes that settled in Greece between 1100 BC and 1000 BC, and had a military ruling class, which persisted in Sparta and Crete even after democracy was established in Athens. These tribes created the simplest style of Greek architecture, known as the Doric order, which consisted of unadorned, straight columns.
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|Draco
|a tyrant in Athens during the early Greek empire (600s B.C.) who established a set of written laws that were so strict that the term "draconian" today refers to overly harsh rules of punishment
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|[[Dravidians]]
|[[Dravidians]]
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|[[Iliad]]
|[[Iliad]]
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|a great Greek work of literature written by Homer in the 800s or 700s B.C., describing the mythical Trojan War
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|[[Jericho]]
|[[Jericho]]
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|[[rule of tyrants]]
|[[rule of tyrants]]
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|during the early Greek empire in the 600s, a series of tyrants ruled Athens. One was "Draco", who imposed the same penalty of death for every crime, no matter how minor!
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|[[Sargon the Great]]
|[[Sargon the Great]]