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| 5354342362 | Bantu migration | a series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, because of drought, famine, and population increase | 0 | |
| 5354342363 | Paleolithic | early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used. | 1 | |
| 5354342364 | Egalitarian society | a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs. | 2 | |
| 5354342365 | Pastoralism | Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock | 3 | |
| 5354342366 | Fertile Crescent | The Fertile Crescent is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape | 4 | |
| 5354342367 | Secondary products | a product that comes out of a production process in addition to the main product. | 5 | |
| 5354342368 | Chiefdoms | A chiefdom is a form of hierarchical political organization in non-industrial societies usually based on kinship | 6 | |
| 5354342369 | Catalhuyuk | a 32-acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey, one of the first true cities | 7 | |
| 5354342370 | Diffusion | the spreading of something more widely. | 8 | |
| 5354342371 | Irrigation argiculture | Irrigation is the method in which a controlled amount of water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture. | 9 | |
| 5354342372 | Urban centers | urban center - a large and densely populated urban area | 10 | |
| 5354342373 | Hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 11 | |
| 5354342374 | Code of Hammurabi | a Babylonian legal code of the 18th century b.c. or earlier, instituted by Hammurabi | 12 | |
| 5354342375 | Patriarchy | a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it. | 13 | |
| 5354342376 | State | a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. | 14 | |
| 5354342377 | Pyramids/Egypt | Egypt, a country in northeastern Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, pyramids a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt. | 15 | |
| 5354342378 | City-states | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. | 16 | |
| 5354342379 | Hebrews | a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel | 17 | |
| 5354342380 | Nubia | Nubia is a region along the Nile river located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. | 18 | |
| 5354342381 | Hegemonic empire | A Hegemonic Empire doesn't need to rule through its military. | 19 | |
| 5354342382 | Satraps | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire. | 20 | |
| 5354342383 | Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 21 | |
| 5354342384 | Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 22 | |
| 5354342385 | Athenian democracy | a system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills. | 23 | |
| 5354342386 | Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | 24 | |
| 5354342387 | Greco-Persian wars | a series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century. | 25 | |
| 5354342388 | Hellenistic era | a period in history defined as the time between the death of Alexander the Great and the rise of Roman domination. | 26 | |
| 5354342389 | Han dynasty | The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China. | 27 | |
| 5354342390 | Pax Romana | the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. | 28 | |
| 5354342391 | Ashoka | was the third ruler of the Indian Mauryan Empire | 29 | |
| 5354342392 | Legalism | excessive adherence to law or formula. | 30 | |
| 5354342393 | Confucianism | a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius. | 31 | |
| 5354342394 | Daoism | a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu, advocating humility and religious piety. | 32 | |
| 5354342395 | Filial piety | filial piety is a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors. | 33 | |
| 5354342396 | Vedas | written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion. | 34 | |
| 5354342397 | Karma | the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. | 35 | |
| 5354342398 | Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) | Siddhartha Gautama was the leader and founder of a sect of wanderer ascetics, one of many sects which existed at that time all over India. | 36 | |
| 5354342399 | Zoroastrianism | a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC. | 37 | |
| 5354342400 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 38 | |
| 5354342401 | Rationalism | a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. | 39 | |
| 5354342402 | Socrates | A Greek philosopher. | 40 | |
| 5354342403 | Ionia | Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey | 41 | |
| 5354342404 | Helots | a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. | 42 | |
| 5354342405 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great | 43 | |
| 5354342406 | China's scholar-gentry class | Scholar-gentry's were civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty | 44 | |
| 5354342407 | Caste as varna and jati | 45 | ||
| 5354342408 | Greek and roman slavery | Accountants and physicians were often slaves. Greek slaves in particular might be highly educated. In ancient Rome Unskilled slaves, or those sentenced to slavery as punishment, worked on farms, in mines, and at mills. | 46 | |
| 5354342409 | Empress wu | she was the only female emperor in Chinese history who actually ruled the whole country for almost half a century. | 47 | |
| 5354342410 | Yellow turban rebellion | was a peasant revolt in China against the Han dynasty. | 48 | |
| 5354342411 | Teotihuacan | the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico | 49 | |
| 5354342412 | Terracing | make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps. | 50 | |
| 5354342413 | Glyphs | a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph. | 51 | |
| 5354342414 | Imperial overstrech | also known as Imperial overreach, is a hypothesis which suggests that an empire can extend itself beyond its ability to maintain or expand its military and economic commitments | 52 | |
| 5354342415 | Axum | is a city in the northern part of Ethiopia. | 53 | |
| 5354342416 | Niger valley civilization | Distictive city based civilization that flourished from about 300 C.E. to 900 C.E. in the floodplain of the middle the Niger River and that included major cities such as Jenne-jeno | 54 | |
| 5354342417 | Maya civilization | The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples | 55 | |
| 5354342418 | Bantu expansion | The Bantu expansion is the name for a postulated millennia-long series of migrations of speakers of the original proto-Bantu language group. | 56 | |
| 5354342419 | Bubonic plague/black death | the Black Death is the most common form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes. The Black Death was an epidemic outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe around 1348 that killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years. | 57 | |
| 5354342420 | Angkor wat | Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world | 58 | |
| 5354342421 | Swahili(the language) | a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries. | 59 | |
| 5354342422 | Mansa musa | Mansa Musa was an emperor of the Mali Empire during the 14th century. | 60 | |
| 5354342423 | Pochteca | Pochteca were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. | 61 | |
| 5354342424 | Trans-Saharan trade routes(sand roads) | Trans Saharan Trade requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant. | 62 | |
| 5354342425 | Silk roads | The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea. | 63 | |
| 5354342426 | Indian Ocean trading network(sea roads) | The Indian Ocean trade network was a system of maritime trade routes that connected China, India, Thailand, the Indonesian and Malaysian islands, East Africa and Arabia. | 64 | |
| 5354342427 | Ghana, Mali, songhay | The African Trading Kingdoms consist of three main cultures, Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, all located in West Africa. | 65 | |
| 5354342428 | Grand canal | The Grand Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination. | 66 | |
| 5354342429 | Hangzhou | A city of eastern China southwest of Shanghai at the head of Hangzhou Bay, an inlet of the East China Sea. | 67 | |
| 5354342430 | Tribute system | The Imperial tributary system of China was the network of trade and foreign relations between China and its tributaries that helped to shape much of East Asian affairs. | 68 | |
| 5354342431 | Sinification | is a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 69 | |
| 5354342432 | Bushido | the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai. | 70 | |
| 5354342433 | Tang Dynasty | was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty | 71 | |
| 5354342434 | Song dynasty | A time of great social and economic change, the period in large measure shaped the intellectual and political climate of China down to the twentieth century. | 72 | |
| 5354342435 | Silla Dynasty (Korea) | was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and one of the world's longest sustained dynasties. | 73 | |
| 5354342436 | Hangul/chu nom | Hangul is the alphabet that has been used to write the Korean language. Chu nom is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. | 74 | |
| 5526247549 | Caesaropapism | In its extreme form, caesaropapism is a political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor ('Caesar', by extension a 'superior' King), is also the supreme head of the church ('papa', pope or analogous religious leader) | 75 | |
| 5526277228 | Feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. | 76 | |
| 5526286439 | Ethiopian Christianity | Christianity in Ethiopia dates to the 1st century AD, arguably the first nation in the world to accept Christianity (the other nation to debate this being Armenia) and this long tradition makes Ethiopia unique amongst sub-Saharan African countries. Christianity in this country is divided into several groups | 77 | |
| 5526303090 | Justinian | Justinian I. Originally Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus. AD 483-565. Byzantine emperor (527-565) who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians and reconquered former Roman territories in Africa, Italy, and Spain. | 78 | |
| 5526318506 | Icons | a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches | 79 | |
| 5526326451 | Eastern Orthodox Christianity | The body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople. | 80 | |
| 5526356328 | Kieran Rus | was a loose federation of East Slavic tribes in Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century, under the reign of the Rurik dynasty. | 81 | |
| 5526369822 | Holy roman empire | A major political institution in Europe that lasted from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It was loosely organized and modeled somewhat on the ancient Roman Empire. It included great amounts of territory in the central and western parts of Europe. Charlemagne was its first emperor | 82 | |
| 5526408494 | Western Christendom | Split in 1054 C.E. on account of differences in church leadership, languages, religious images and the filioque | 83 | |
| 5526411915 | Crusades | a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims | 84 | |
| 5610264462 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Asian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD | 85 | |
| 5610274502 | Turks | a member of any of the ancient central Asian peoples who spoke Turkic languages, including the Seljuks and Ottomans. | 86 | |
| 5610278430 | Yuan Dynasty | was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin clan. From early 13th century to 1368 | 87 | |
| 5610315071 | Black Death | an epidemic outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe around 1348 that killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years. The epidemic spanned from China to England to North Africa, transmitted along the Silk Road and other trade routes. | 88 | |
| 5610328565 | Temujin/Chinggis Khan | (1162-1227), founder of the Mongol empire; born Temujin. He took the name Genghis Khan ('ruler of all') in 1206 after uniting the nomadic Mongol tribes, and by the time of his death his empire extended from China to the Black Sea | 89 | |
| 5610342880 | Kipchak Khanate/Golden Horde | It is also known as the Kipchak Khanate or as the Ulus of Jochi. After the death of Batu Khan (the founder of the Golden Horde) in 1255, his dynasty flourished for a full century, until 1359, though the intrigues of Nogai did instigate a partial civil war in the late 1290s. | 90 | |
| 5610346814 | Pax Mongolia | The Pax Mongolica (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as Pax Tatarica) ("Tatar Peace") is a historiographical term, modelled after Pax Romana (Roman Peace) which was the peace between Roman Nations, | 91 |
