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| 5835743503 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 C.E. in China promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic | 0 | |
| 5835748163 | Buddhism | a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Gautama Buddha that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by mental and moral self-purification. | 1 | |
| 5835748164 | Daoism | In Chinese, the way. A religious system that stressed contemplation, self-centering, and reverence for the natural world | 2 | |
| 5835748165 | Sui | Dynasty that succeeded the Han in China; emerged form strong rulers in northern China; united all of northern China and reconquered southern China | 3 | |
| 5835749219 | Tang | Dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 C.E.; more stable than previous dynasty | 4 | |
| 5835749220 | Harsha | Ruler who followed Guptas in India; briefly constructed a loose empire in northern India between 616 and 657 C.E. | 5 | |
| 5835750036 | Rajput | Regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their regions | 6 | |
| 5835750037 | Hinduism | The name given to the mixture of forms of religious expression that became the predominant religion of India from last centuries B.C.E. Developed from the blending of sublime philosophical thinking, popular polytheistic cults, and mysticism | 7 | |
| 5835750038 | Devi | Mother goddess within Hinduism; widely spread following collapse of Guptas; encouraged new emotionalism in religious ritual | 8 | |
| 5835750756 | jati | The multitude of occupational subgroups into which the the Indian caste system is divided | 9 | |
| 5835750757 | Islam | Major world religion having its origins in 610 C.E. in the Arabian peninsula; meaning literally submission; based on prophecy of Muhammad | 10 | |
| 5835752731 | Diocletian | Roman emperor from 284 to 305 C.E.; restored later empire by improved administration and tax collection | 11 | |
| 5835753879 | Constantine | Roman emperor from 312 to 337 C.E; established second capital at Constantinople; attempted to use religious force of Christianity to unify empire spiritually | 12 | |
| 5835753880 | Atilla the Hun | the most famous invader who led the nomadic huns who went to Rome and contributed to Rome's collapse. Fought with great fierceness | 13 | |
| 5835754542 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire; retained Greek; later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople | 14 | |
| 5835754543 | Mahayana | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior | 15 | |
| 5835755386 | bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men and women; built up spiritual merits during their lifetimes; prayers even after death could ai people to achieve reflected holiness | 16 | |
| 5835762329 | Saint | Holy men and women, often martyrs, who were revered in Christianity as models of Christian lifestyles; built up treasury of merit that could be tapped by more ordinary Christians | 17 | |
| 5835762330 | Christos | Greek term for "anointed one." | 18 | |
| 5835763343 | Paul of Tarsus | A key Christian leader. A Jewish Rabbi from Asia Minor that played the most influential role in the spread of Christianity. Paul never met Jesus but he had a vision one day of speaking to him. | 19 | |
| 5835763344 | New Testament | The second part of the Christian Bible, containing descriptions of the life and teachings of Jesus and of his early followers | 20 | |
| 5835764681 | pope | is the Bishop of Rome and, therefore, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church | 21 | |
| 5835769518 | Trinity | which held that the one God had three persons, the Father, the Son (Christ), and the Holy Ghost (God as present in human spiritual experience) | 22 | |
| 5835769519 | Council of Nicea | Christian council that met in 325 C.E. to determine orthodoxy with respect to the Trinity; insisted on divinity of all persons of the Trinity | 23 | |
| 5835772226 | Pope Leo I | clearly established the papacy as the supreme authority in western Europe. Centralized the Western Church and standardized its rituals, prays, and doctrine | 24 | |
| 5835772227 | Augustine | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian church. Scholar and contributor to early Christinaity | 25 | |
| 5835774091 | Benedict of Nursia | Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman Empire | 26 |
