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| 7263612070 | loess | a fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. it constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow Rover Valley in northern China | 0 | |
| 7263615985 | Shang | the dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 bce) | 1 | |
| 7263657108 | Zhou | the people and dynasty that ook over the dominant position in north China from the Shang dynasty and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The Zhou era, particularly the vigorous early period (1045-771 bce) was remembered in Chinese tradition as a time of prosperity and benevolent rule | 2 | |
| 7263695132 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself in the best interests of his subjects | 3 | |
| 7263734969 | Confucious | western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 bce) his doctrine of duty and pubic service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials | 4 | |
| 7263741345 | Daoism | chinese school of thought, originating in the warring States Period with the laozi. daoism offered an alternative to the Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty | 5 | |
| 7263778997 | yin/yang | in Chinese belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. yang is associated with masculine, light and active qualities; yin with feminine, dark, and passive qualities | 6 | |
| 7263825952 | kush | an Egyptian name for the Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt, where an indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions arose beginning in the early second millenium bce | 7 | |
| 7263847587 | Meroe | capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century bce to the fourth century ce. in this period Nubian culture shows more indeoendence from Egypt and the influence of sub-Saharan Africa | 8 | |
| 7263880597 | Celts | peoples sharing common linguistic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium bce | 9 | |
| 7263889905 | Druids | the class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples | 10 | |
| 7263922158 | Olmec | the first Mesoamerican civilization. between ca. 1200 and 400 bce. the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide ranging trade, ceremonial centers and monumental construction | 11 | |
| 7263946515 | Chavin | the first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 bce) | 12 | |
| 7263952282 | llama | a hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America. It was the only domesticated beast of burden in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans | 13 |
