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| 11323445856 | Aspasia | A foreign woman resident in Athens (ca. 470-400 B.C.E.) and partner of the statesman Pericles who was famed for her learning and wit. | 0 | |
| 11323450004 | Ban Zhao | A Chinese woman writer and court official (45-116 C.E.) whose work provides valuable insight on the position of women in classical China. | 1 | |
| 11323453241 | Brahmins | Priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made | 2 | |
| 11323460707 | Caste | any of the hereditary social classes in Hindu society; social stratification | 3 | |
| 11323467879 | Dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 4 | |
| 11323475965 | Greek and Roman slavery | In the Greek and Roman world, slaves were captives from war and piracy (and their descendants), abandoned children, and the victims of long-distance trade; manumission was common. Among the Greeks, household service was the most common form of slavery, but in parts of the Roman state, thousands of slaves were employed under brutal conditions in the mines and on great plantations. | 5 | |
| 11323490146 | Helots | Spartan slaves | 6 | |
| 11323494892 | Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | 7 | |
| 11323509059 | Ksatriya | a member of the warrior class in ancient Hindu society | 8 | |
| 11323515282 | Latifundia | huge estates bought up by newly wealthy Roman citizens | 9 | |
| 11323521531 | Pericles | Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens. | 10 | |
| 11323531219 | Ritual Purity | The state of readiness to enter the presence of God | 11 | |
| 11323551572 | scholar-gentry class | A term used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials. | 12 | |
| 11323566079 | Sparticus | a gladiator who led a slave revolt; defeated several Roman armies | 13 | |
| 11323569538 | sudra | member of the fourth-highest caste grouping, made up of farmers and people who did manual work | 14 | |
| 11323576102 | the "three obediences" | In Chinese Confucian thought, the notion that a woman is permanently subordinate to male control: first to her father, then to her husband, and finally to her son. | 15 | |
| 11323583820 | Untouchables | lowest class of people in the caste system of Hinduism, do all the dirty work of society | 16 | |
| 11323587763 | Vaisya | The Indian social class that was originally defined as farmers but eventually comprised merchants. | 17 | |
| 11323593802 | Wang Mang | A Han court official who usurped the throne and ruled from 8 C.E. to 23 C.E.; noted for his reform movement that included the breakup of large estates. | 18 | |
| 11323597888 | Wu, Empress | The only female "emperor" in Chinese history (r. 690-705 C.E.), Empress Wu patronized scholarship, worked to elevate the position of women, and provoked a backlash of Confucian misogynist invective. | 19 | |
| 11323601159 | Wudi | Han emperor (r. 141-86 B.C.E.) who began the Chinese civil service system by establishing an academy to train imperial bureaucrats. | 20 | |
| 11323604805 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | A major Chinese peasant revolt that began in 184 C.E. and helped cause the fall of the Han dynasty. | 21 |
