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| 12440926 | Neolithic | "New Stone Age" -the last division of the Stone Age, immediately preceding the development of the metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth-fifth millennia B.C.E | 0 | |
| 12440927 | Innovation | Cultral traits, techniques, or objects found among different groups of people that were invented independently. | 1 | |
| 12440928 | Diffusion | The spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another. | 2 | |
| 12440929 | Ziggurat | A temple tower of ancient Mesopotamia constructed for religious purposes. | 3 | |
| 12440930 | Bas Relief | sculptured forms project only slightly the the background | 4 | |
| 12440931 | Pictogram | the practice of writing through pictures | 5 | |
| 12440932 | Cuneiform | an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | 6 | |
| 12440933 | Ideogram | picture that symbolizes an idea or action | 7 | |
| 12440934 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 8 | |
| 12440935 | Code of Hammurabi | the first written code, developed in Babylonia about 2000 BC., The collection of laws organized by Hammurabi for the people of Babylon to follow. | 9 | |
| 12440936 | Hieroglyphs | pictures, characters, or symbols standing for words, ideas, or sounds; ancient Egyptians used instead of an alphabet like ours | 10 | |
| 12440937 | Pharaoh | the title of the ancient Egyptian kings | 11 | |
| 12440938 | Pyramids | Large Egyptian tombs. | 12 | |
| 12440940 | Civilization | The way of life of a group of people who have a written language, laws, and a government | 13 | |
| 12440941 | Daoism | Religion that believes that people should be able to find happiness and peace within themselves without depending on success and wealth | 14 | |
| 12440942 | Zhou | The Zhou Dynasty lasted from 1100-256 B.C.E and was the third dynasty of ancient china. Under Zhou, written law is in use as well as money and metals such as iron. | 15 | |
| 12440943 | Confucius | chinese philosphere and teacher; his belifs,known as confusoinism greatly influenced chinese life | 16 | |
| 12440944 | Qin | DYNASTY: they built the GREAT WALL OF CHINA | 17 | |
| 12440945 | Shi Huangdi | emperor of the Qin dynasty | 18 | |
| 12440946 | Great Wall | A wall built in China to keep out invaders | 19 | |
| 12440947 | Han | DYNASTY: This dynasty believed in Confucionism, who's ruler was Han Gaozu. | 20 | |
| 12440948 | Mesopotamia | first civilization located between the Tigris & Eurphrates Rivers in present day Iraq; term means "land between the rivers;" Sumerian culture | 21 | |
| 12440949 | City-States | area under one government | 22 | |
| 12440950 | Babylonians | An empire that defeated the Sumerian city-states under Hammurabi and lasted from about 1750 B.C.E. to 1500 B.C.E. | 23 | |
| 12440951 | Kush | A city on the Upper Nile that had adapted some urban patterns from Egypt. | 24 | |
| 12440952 | Harappa | One of the two biggest cities within the Harappan civilization. | 25 | |
| 12440953 | Mahenjo Daro | One of the two biggest cities within the Harappan civilization. | 26 | |
| 12440954 | Indus River | the location of the first river valley civilization of India | 27 | |
| 12440955 | Ideographic | In this stage pictures were converted into ideograms, pictures that suggest names of objects and events that became symbols,. | 28 | |
| 12440956 | Shang | DYNASTY: Was ancient China's first dynasty. | 29 | |
| 12440958 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 30 | |
| 12440959 | Alexander the Great | King of Macedon (Ancient Greece), and one of the most successful military commanders in history. He conquered most of the Greeks, and Judah/Palestine fell to him in 333 BCE. | 31 | |
| 12440960 | Aryan | According to Nazi doctrine, a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew) | 32 | |
| 12440961 | Vedas | Religious songs composed by the ancient Aryans of the India, and written down later by Hindu priests | 33 | |
| 12440962 | Untouchables | People with lowly or "dirty" jobs or way of life | 34 | |
| 12440963 | Cyrus the Great | Persian Ruler: 558-529 BCE; Defeated three kingdoms of western Asian and made them into his own empire. Conquered Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians. Under him, Achaemenids dominated the entire region from Persia to the Mediterranean. It was supposed that he was killed in battle, while other legends say that he was murdered by an avenging mother of whom he killed. | 35 | |
| 12440964 | Peloponnesian War | 461-451 BCE; Athens and their allies confronted with Sparta ad it's allies in a series of intermittent battles. in 454 BCE: Athenians moved the treasury of the Delian League to Athens and appropriated its funds to create a center of culture and grace in the city. This antagonized its allies and further war with Sparta. | 36 | |
| 12440965 | Philip II of Macedon | Macedonian Ruler: 359-336 BCE; He persuaded Macedonia to declare him king as heir of his brother. He wanted to unify and bring peace to Greece and to liberate the Greek City-States in Asia Minor from Persia's control. He led his own troops and conquered Balkans from Danube to the Aegean coast and from Adriatic to the Black Sea. He was elected president of Pythian games, but Athens and Thebes opposed his power over Greece. | 37 | |
| 12440966 | Dharma | The set of religious and ethical duties to which each living creature in the universe is subject. | 38 | |
| 12440967 | Alexandria | A city found in ancient Egypt founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great | 39 | |
| 12440971 | Hannibal | soilder, general of the carthagin soilders, brought elepants | 40 | |
| 12440972 | Julius Caesar | A successful Roman general and famous speaker, was governer of Gaul, used army to epland control of Roman Republic, eventually becoming a dictator | 41 | |
| 12440973 | Diocletian | He was a general that became emperor in A.D. 284, introduced reforms | 42 | |
| 12440974 | Augustus Caesar | The first empreror of Rome, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, help Rome come into Pax Romana, or the Age of Roman Peace | 43 | |
| 12440975 | Constantine | an emperor who allowed christianity to be preached freely among his people | 44 | |
| 12440977 | Senate | one branch of Congress | 45 | |
| 12440978 | Consuls | two cheif officials | 46 | |
| 12440979 | Guptas | The Gupta dynasty was from about 320-550 C.E. and covered most of Northern India, parts of easgtern Pakistan, and what is now western India and Bangladesh. | 47 | |
| 12440980 | Vishnu | The preserver, a kindly god, who protects those who worship him, banishes bad luck, and restores good health; with his consorts lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and Saraswati the goddess of wisdom and the arts. | 48 | |
| 12440981 | Shiva | God of destruction, whose dancing in a circle of fire symbolizes the eternal cycle of creation and destruction. | 49 | |
| 12440982 | Reincarnation | Literally means, "to be made flesh again", is a belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. This doctrine is heavily used in Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. | 50 | |
| 12440983 | Buddha | the enlightened one | 51 | |
| 12440984 | Nirvana | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | 52 | |
| 12440985 | Stupas | large dome-shaped shrines | 53 | |
| 12440986 | Muslims | people who worship 1 god | 54 | |
| 12440987 | Muhammad | prophet & founder of Islam | 55 | |
| 12440988 | Quran (Koran) | Islam's Holy book | 56 | |
| 12440989 | Mecca | An Arabian trading center & Muhammad birthplace. | 57 | |
| 12440990 | Medina | town to which Muhammad and his followers fled to escape persecution | 58 | |
| 12440992 | Five Pillars of Islam | in Islam, the most important teachings of Muhammad | 59 | |
| 12440993 | Haji | a pilgrim who journeys to Mecca | 60 | |
| 12440994 | Caliph | the leader of the Muslim people | 61 | |
| 12440995 | Sunnis | Muslims that believe the caliph doesn't have to be related to Muhammad and should be chosen by the leaders of the Islamic community. | 62 | |
| 12440996 | Shi'a | The group of Muslims that believed that the caliph should be related to the family of the Prophet. | 63 | |
| 12440997 | Abbasid | The dynasty that came after the Umayyads. Devoted their energy to trade, scholorship, and the arts. | 64 | |
| 12440998 | Maya | The civilization that lived in the Yucatan Peninsula. They built stone pyramids and crowned with temples and palaces. | 65 | |
| 12440999 | Inca | a member of the Quechuan peoples of Peru maintaining an empire until the Spanish conquest | 66 | |
| 12441000 | Tang | dynasty that ruled China for almost 300 years, 618-918 A.D. | 67 | |
| 12441001 | Rajput | a member of the dominant Hindu military caste in northern India | 68 | |
| 12441002 | Allah | Muslim name for the one and only God | 69 | |
| 12441003 | Byzantine Empire | A continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 70 | |
| 12441004 | Jesus of Nazareth | A prophet and savior in the Christian faith | 71 | |
| 12441005 | Paul | The second founder of Christianity dedicated himself to establishing Christianity as an independent, organized religion. | 72 | |
| 12441006 | Pope | The leader of the Roman Catholic faith | 73 | |
| 12441007 | Real politik | German term meaning practical politics, that means, policy determined by expediency rather then by ethical or ideological considerations. | 74 | |
| 12441008 | Hegemony | The predominance of one unit over the others in a group, it can also apply to the rule of an empire over its subject peoples, when the foreign government is exercised with their substantial consent. | 75 | |
| 12441009 | Pax Romana | peaceful time in Roman history that lasted more than 2oo years | 76 | |
| 12441010 | Tribune | An official of the Roman Republic elected by plebians to protect their rights. | 77 | |
| 12441011 | Plebian | an ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman republic | 78 | |
| 12441012 | Paterfamilias | the male head of a household; the father of a family. | 79 | |
| 12441013 | Legalism | Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws | 80 | |
| 12441014 | Assimilation | the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | 81 | |
| 12441015 | Ta Nakh | A Hebrew term for the three books of the Bible that are written in Hebrew. The books include the Torah (the first five books of the bible), the Nevi'im (Books of the Prophets), and the Ketuvium (extra historical, philosophical, and poetic writings). | 82 | |
| 12441016 | Diaspora | A dispersion of peoples. Commonly used with the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles. | 83 | |
| 12441017 | Pentecost | The Jewish festival that falls on the fiftieth day after Passover. | 84 | |
| 12441018 | Dar al-Islam | Arabic words with the literal meaning "the abode of peace." | 85 | |
| 12441019 | Sufi | An Islamic member of one of the orders practicing mystical forms of worship that first arose in the eighth and ninth centuries C.E. | 86 | |
| 12458170 | Polytheism | Belief in more than one god | 87 |
