AP World History Unit #2

City-state

A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.

Cultural Diffusion

The spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.

Democracy

A government controlled by citizens, either directly or through representatives.

Direct Democracy

A government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives.

Epic

A long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes.

Hellenistic

Relating to the civilization, language art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the great to the late second century B.C.

Isreal

A kingdom of the united Isrealites lasting from around 1020 to 922 B.C.

Macedonia

An ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Phillip II conquered Greece in 338 B.C.

Mycenaean

An Indo-European people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.

Myth

A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.

Pelopnnesian war

A war lasting from 431 to 404 B.C., in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies.

Phoenicians

A seafaring people of Southwest Asia, who around 1100 B.C. began to trade and established colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.

Polis

A Greek city-state-the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C.

Satrap

A governor of a province in the Persian Empire.

Gain

is the process of getting it and expanding it. (getting something new)

Consolidate

is the process of taking control from other people who also have power. (Making something bigger and stronger that already exists)

Maintain

is the process of keeping ones power and sustaining it.

Periodization

The process or study of dividing the past into periods of time and naming them.

Why did the Akkadian and Assyrian empires start in the first place?

Because their rulers wanted to control more trade routes.