318666334 | Mandate of Heaven | Meaning that heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely | 0 | |
318666335 | Ziggurats | Are Sumerians built temples, which were kind of like pyramids, to appease their gods. | 1 | |
318666336 | Gupta Empire | Was more decentralized and smaller than its predecessor, but it is often referred to as a golden age because it enjoyed relative peace and saw significant advances in art and sciences. | 2 | |
318666337 | Mauryan Empire | Was found by Chandragupta maurya who unified the smaller Aryan kingdoms into a civilization. | 3 | |
318666338 | Code of Hammurabi | Is often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes. | 4 | |
318666339 | Polytheistic | Meaning that they worshiped more than one god. | 5 | |
318666340 | Neolithic Revolution | In a span of several thousands years from about 8000 B.C.E to 3000 B.C.E , groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town and city life | 6 | |
318666341 | Caesar | Was given powers over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe. | 7 | |
318666342 | Phoenicians | They established a powerful naval city-stated all along the Mediterranean and they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system. | 8 | |
318666343 | Lydians | They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system. | 9 | |
318666344 | Egyptian | A civilization developed along the Nile River, where the soil was rich and the agricultural opportunities were plentiful. | 10 | |
318666345 | Athens | A political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization. | 11 | |
318666346 | Hittites | By 1500 B.C.E, the Hittites dominated the region, especially because they learned how to use iron in their weapons. | 12 | |
318666347 | Nebuchadnezzar | Rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture. | 13 | |
318666348 | Olmec | What we know today as Mexico, from 1200 to 1400 B.C.E and the Chavin in the Andes from 900 to 300 B.C.E | 14 | |
318666349 | Jenne-Jeno | Believed to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa. | 15 | |
318666350 | Sparta | An agricultural and highly militaristic region. | 16 | |
318666351 | Tikal | The most important Mayan political cente, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people. | 17 | |
318666352 | Indus Valley | A civilization was built along the banks of a river system. | 18 | |
318666353 | Five Pillars Of Islam | 1) confessions of faith 2) Prayer five times per day 3) Charity to the needy 4) Fasting During the month-long Ramadan 5) Pilgramige to Mecca at least once during one's lifetime | 19 |
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