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| 4265398027 | Mark Antony | Caesar's right-hand man, teamed with Octavian to punish Caesar's murders, fell in love with Cleopatra, went into civil war, at Battle of Actium, he and Cleopatra fled and committed suicide | 0 | |
| 4265398028 | Mauryan Dynasty | first ruler was Chandragupta Maurya; unified much of the entire subcontinent; large armies with thousands of chariots and elephant borne troops; developed a substantial bureaucracy with a postal service; autocratic government | 1 | |
| 4265398029 | natural law | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | 2 | |
| 4265398030 | aristocracy | a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 3 | |
| 4265398031 | patricians | the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners | 4 | |
| 4265398032 | Mycenaeans | first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.; sea traders; lived in separate city-states; invovled in Trojan War against Troy | 5 | |
| 4265398033 | plebians | members of the lower class of Ancient Rome including farmers, merchants, artisans and traders | 6 | |
| 4265398034 | patron-client relationship | Ancient Roman: a fundamental social relationship in which the patron-a wealthy and powerful individual-provided legal and economic protection and assistance to clients, men of lesser status and means, and in return the clients supported their patrons | 7 | |
| 4265398035 | Peloponnesian War | a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta | 8 | |
| 4265398036 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon. | 9 | |
| 4265398037 | Phoenicians | located on eastern Mediterranean coast; invented the alphabet which used sounds rather than symbols like cuneiform | 10 | |
| 4265398038 | phonetic alphabet | an alphabet that contains a different symbol for each individual sound in a language; in this alphabet there is a one to one relationship between sounds and symbols | 11 | |
| 4265398039 | Plato | (430-347 BCE) qas a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection. | 12 | |
| 4265398040 | polis | a city-state in Ancient Greece | 13 | |
| 4265398041 | princeps | Latin for "first citizen." Augustus and other Roman emperors gave themselves this title to distinguish themselves from Hellenistic monarchs | 14 | |
| 4265398042 | Qin Dynasty | the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall | 15 | |
| 4265398043 | Punic Wars | the three wars waged by Rome against Carthage, 264-241, 218-201, and 149-146 b.c., resulting in the destruction of Carthage and the annexation of its territory by Rome. | 16 | |
| 4265398044 | reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions | 17 | |
| 4265398045 | satraps | governors of provinces in the Persian Empire | 18 | |
| 4265398046 | Roman Empire | an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire | 19 | |
| 4265398047 | scholar-gentry | Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China. | 20 | |
| 4265398048 | secularism | the view that the present well-being of mankind should predominate over religious considerations in civil or public affairs | 21 | |
| 4265398049 | Socrates | philosopher who believed in an absolute right or wrong; asked students pointed questions to make them use their reason, later became Socratic method | 22 | |
| 4265398050 | stirrup | device for securing a horseman's feet, enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. First evidence of the use of stirrups was among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in approximately the first century C.E. | 23 | |
| 4265398051 | Terra Cotta Army | army to protect Shi Huangdi in the afterlife; 700,000 clay soldiers | 24 | |
| 4265398052 | tribunes | official who was elected by the Plebeians to protect their interests | 25 | |
| 4265398053 | Triumvirate | in ancient Rome, a group of three leaders sharing control of the government. | 26 | |
| 4265398054 | tyrants | in ancient Greece, rulers who seized power by force but who ruled with the people's support; later came to refer to rulers who exercise brutal and oppressive power | 27 | |
| 4265398055 | Upishads | sacred Hindu texts dealing with metaphysics | 28 | |
| 4265398056 | Virgil | greatest poet of the Golden Age, called the "Homer of Rome" because the Iliad and the Odyssey served as models for his epic, the Aeneid; focus on Patriotism; it took 10 years to write | 29 | |
| 4265398057 | Warring States Period | time of warfare between regional lords following the decline of the Zhou dynasty in the 8th century B.C.E. | 30 | |
| 4265398058 | Xerxes | son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C. | 31 | |
| 4265398059 | Abraham | the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac | 32 | |
| 4265398060 | Bhagavad-Gita | (Hinduism) the sacred 'song of God' composed about 200 BC and incorporated into the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic) | 33 | |
| 4265398061 | boddhisatva | Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others | 34 | |
| 4265398062 | dharma | in Hinduism, the duties and obligations of each caste | 35 | |
| 4265398063 | diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | 36 | |
| 4265398064 | ethnic religions | focus on one ethnic group and generally have not spread into other cultures | 37 | |
| 4265398065 | Hebrew Bible | the name used by Jews for their scripture that is basically the same as Christians' Old Testament. | 38 | |
| 4265398066 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity | 39 | |
| 4265398067 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud | 40 | |
| 4265398068 | karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 41 | |
| 4265398069 | Mahabhrata | one of two Indian epics, also a religious text, provides information about the period of intermingling of cultures. The other epic is Ramayana. | 42 | |
| 4265398070 | moksha | the Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. | 43 | |
| 4265398071 | mudras | choreographed hand movements used in the rituals of vajrayana buddhism | 44 | |
| 4265398072 | nirvana | the lasting peace that Buddhists seek by giving up selfish desires | 45 | |
| 4265398073 | Paul | (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles | 46 | |
| 4265398074 | Ramayana | one of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and the abduction of his wife by a demon and Rama's restoration to the throne | 47 | |
| 4265398075 | reciprocity | the obligation to return in kind what another has done for us | 48 | |
| 4265398076 | Rig Veda | a collection of 1,017 Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500 BC or earlier; Hinduism's oldest sacred text. | 49 | |
| 4265398077 | Shiva | an important Hindu deity who in the trinity of gods was the Destroyer | 50 | |
| 4265398078 | universalizing religions | a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. | 51 | |
| 4265398079 | Vishnu | a Hindu god considered the preserver of the world | 52 | |
| 4265398080 | xiao | filial piety, the virtue of reverence and respect for family (CONFUCIANISM) | 53 | |
| 4265398081 | ren | an attitude of kindness and benevolence or a sense of humanity for Confucianism. | 54 | |
| 4265398082 | li | calls for individuals to behave in conventionally appropriate fashion in Confucianism. | 55 | |
| 4265398083 | yin-yang | in Daoist belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. One is associated with masculine, light, and active qualities while the other with feminine, dark, and passive qualities. | 56 |
