Classical Period 600 BCE - 600 CE vocab

widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

• silk road

• epidemic

• empire

• democracy

network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century

• Empire

• city-state

• dictatorship

• Silk Road

extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority

• city-state

• dictatorship

• dynasty

• empire

a form of government in which power is held by the nobility, often considered the highest class

• city-state

• Aristocracy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Autocracy

• city-states

form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations

• democracy

• dictatorship

• city-state

• Empire

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state

• democracy

• philosophy

• city-state

• empire

the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence

• Empire

• philosophy

• city-state

• democracy

a prehistoric period that followed the Bronze Age, when weapons and tools came to be made of iron

• Bronze Age

• Stone Age

• Steele Age

• Iron Age

a magnetized navigator created by the ancient chinese

• iron age

• pulley system

• compass

• sewer system