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World History Study Guide to 1648 (view source)
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|The world's oldest major civilization
|The world's oldest major civilization
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|[[city-states]]
|[[City-states]]
|Small nations consisting of only a single city each; common in ancient Greece. Examples included Sparta, Athens and Corinth. They fought each other, but also banned together to defeat the Persians when that great empire sought to absorb Greece.
|Small nations consisting of only a single city each; common in ancient Greece. Examples included Sparta, Athens and Corinth. They fought each other, but also banned together to defeat the Persians when that great empire sought to absorb Greece.
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|A Renaissance movement in the arts, looking back to ancient Rome and Greece for inspiration
|A Renaissance movement in the arts, looking back to ancient Rome and Greece for inspiration
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|[[Cleopatra]]
|The queen of Egypt who reigned from 51-30 B.C.
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|[[Code of Hammurabi]]
|[[Code of Hammurabi]]
| The code of Hammurabi was one of the first set of written laws. It was a harsh code that demanded an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Hammurabi was the king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
| The code of Hammurabi was one of the first set of written laws. It was a harsh code that demanded an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. Hammurabi was the king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C.
|[[Diaspora]]
|[[Diaspora]]
|The migration or scattering of a people away from their ancestral home.
|The migration or scattering of a people away from their ancestral home.
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|[[Diocletian]]
| The Roman emperor who tried to save the empire of Rome by dividing it into eastern and western regions. He established the "tetrartchy", and ruled from A.D. 284 to 305.
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|[[Direct Democracy]]
|[[Direct Democracy]]
|[[Edict of Milan]]
|[[Edict of Milan]]
|a political proclamation that fully legalized Christianity (and all other religions) throughout the Roman Empire. This edict was issued by Constantine I in 313 AD, shortly after the end of the Diocletian persecutions against Christians.
|a political proclamation that fully legalized Christianity (and all other religions) throughout the Roman Empire. This edict was issued by Constantine I in 313 AD, shortly after the end of the Diocletian persecutions against Christians.
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|[[Egypt]]
|[[Egypt]]
|One of the oldest civilizations in recorded history, going back over 5,000 years
|One of the oldest civilizations in recorded history, going back over 5,000 years
|[[Julius Caesar]]
|[[Julius Caesar]]
|A political leader who laid out the groundwork for the future Roman Empire, and also provided the foundation of the Gregorian calendar
|A political leader who laid out the groundwork for the future Roman Empire, and also provided the foundation of the Gregorian calendar
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|[[Julian Calendar]]
| The 12 month, 365-day calendar the Julius Caesar established.
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|[[Justinian]] I/the [[Justinian Code]]
|[[Justinian]] I/the [[Justinian Code]]