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| 114945600 | Axum | Kingdom located in the Ethiopian highlands; replace Meroe in the first century CE; received a strong influence from the Arabian Peninsula; eventually converted to Christianity | 0 | |
| 114945601 | Ethiopia | A Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa | 1 | |
| 114945602 | Sahara | Desert running across northern Africa; separating the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa | 2 | |
| 114945603 | Shinto | Religion of early Japanese culture; devotees worshiped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayers made to Gods and nature spirits | 3 | |
| 114945604 | Olmec Culture | cultural tradition that arose at San Lorenzo and La Venta in Mexico c. 1200 BCE; featured: an irrigated culture, urbanism, elaborate religion, beginnings to writing systems and calenders. (lacked writing for awhile) | 4 | |
| 114945605 | Teotihuacan | Site of classic culture in central Mexico; urban center with important religious functions; supported by intensive agriculture in the surrounding regions; populations reached up to 200,000 | 5 | |
| 114945606 | Maya | Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central America contemporary with Teotihuacan; extended over a broad region; featured monumental architecture, written language, calenders, and mathematical systems, highly developed religion | 6 | |
| 114945607 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire incorporating various Andean cultures. | 7 | |
| 114945608 | Polynesia | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealend, and Easter island | 8 | |
| 114945609 | Yellow Turbans | Daoists who launched a revolt in 184CE in China, promising a golden age to be brought by divine magic. | 9 | |
| 114945610 | Sui Dynasty | succeeded the Han in China; emerged from strong rulers in Northern China;united all of North China, and then reconquered southern China | 10 | |
| 114945611 | Tang Dynasty | succeeded the Sui in 618 CE, more stable than the Sui | 11 | |
| 114945612 | Rajput | Regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their regions | 12 | |
| 114945613 | Devi | Mother goddess within the Hindu faith; widely spread following the collapse of the Gupta empire; encouraged new emotionalism in religious rituals | 13 | |
| 114945614 | Islam | Major world religion having its origins in 610CE; in the Arabian peninsula; based off the prophecy of Muhammad. | 14 | |
| 114945615 | Allah | Supreme God in the strictly monotheistic Islam | 15 | |
| 114945616 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of the Roman Empire following the collapse of the western half; retained Mediterranean culture, particularly Greek | 16 | |
| 114945617 | Justinian (c. 482-565) | Early Byzantine Emperor, responsible for the major building in Constantinople and a codification of Roman Law; his efforts to recapture Roman territory failed. | 17 | |
| 114945618 | Augustine (Saint) (354-430CE) | Influential church father and theologian; born in Africa and ultimately bishop of Hippo in Africa; champion of the Christian doctrine against various heresies and very important in the long term development of Christian though on such issues as predestination | 18 | |
| 114945619 | Coptic | Christian Sect in Egypt, later tolerated after the Islamic takeover. | 19 | |
| 114945620 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men; built up on spiritual merits during their lifetimes; prayers even after death could aid people to achieve holiness. | 20 | |
| 114945621 | Mahayana | A new style of Buddhism; that placed emphasis on the Buddha as a deity. more of a religion than regular Buddhism, because it contained a real deity and shrines and temples. | 21 | |
| 114945622 | Jesus of Nazareth | prophet and teacher among the Jews; believed by Christians to be the Messiah; executed c. 30CE | 22 | |
| 114945623 | Paul | One of the first Christian missionaries; moved away from insistence that adherents of the new religion follow Jewish law. use of Greek as the language of the Church | 23 | |
| 114945624 | Pope | Bishop of Rome; head of the Catholic faith in Western Europe | 24 | |
| 114945625 | Benedict of Nursia | founder of monasticism in what had been western half of Roman Empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century CE paralleled development of Basil's rule in the Byzantine empire | 25 | |
| 114945626 | Animism | A religious outlook that sees Gods in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions. | 26 |
