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| 201624529 | Ahura Mazda | chief deity of Zoroastrianism | 0 | |
| 201624530 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism | 1 | |
| 201624531 | Cyrus the Great | king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC) | 2 | |
| 201624532 | Gupta Empire | Powerful Indian state based, like its Mauryan predecessor, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley. It controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture (186) | 3 | |
| 201624533 | Herodotus | the ancient Greek known as the father of history | 4 | |
| 201624534 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 5 | |
| 201624535 | Olympic Games | the ancient Panhellenic celebration at Olympia in honor of Zeus | 6 | |
| 201624536 | Peloponnesian War | a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta | 7 | |
| 201624537 | Plebians | Members of the lower class of Ancient Rome including farmers, merchants, artisans and traders | 8 | |
| 201624538 | Qin Shihuangdi | Ruler of China who united China for the first time. He built road and canals and began the Great Wall of China. He also imposed a standard system of laws, money, weights, and writing. | 9 | |
| 201624539 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. Chinese rulers tried a variety of defenses and stratagems to ward off these 'barbarians,' as they called them, and dispersed them in 1st Century. (168) | 10 | |
| 201624540 | Alexander the Great | Conquered and ruled an empire stretching from Macedonia to the Indus Valley | 11 | |
| 201624541 | Athenian democracy | GOVERNMENT: A type of government used in Athens which is sort of a combine of majority rule and democracy. | 12 | |
| 201624542 | Darius I | king of Persia who expanded the empire and invaded Greece but was defeated at the Battle of Marathon (550-486 BC) | 13 | |
| 201624543 | Han Dynasty | imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy | 14 | |
| 201624544 | hoplite | a heavily armed Greek foot soldier | 15 | |
| 201624545 | Battle of Marathon | a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians | 16 | |
| 201624546 | patricians | the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners | 17 | |
| 201624547 | Persepolis | an ancient city that was the capital of the ancient Persian Empire | 18 | |
| 201624548 | 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. | 19 | |
| 201624549 | Solon | a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | 20 | |
| 201624550 | Yellow Turban Rebellions | one of the more important of the rebellions that brought the eventual collapse of the Han Dynasty; happened in the Later Han; named because of the yellow hats the rebels wore | 21 | |
| 201624551 | Aryans | nomads from Europe and Asia who migrated to India and finally settled; vedas from this time suggest beginning of caste system | 22 | |
| 201624552 | Caesar Augustus | Honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate. He established his rule after the death of Julius Caesar and he is considered the first Roman Emperor. | 23 | |
| 201624553 | Greco-Persian Wars | Two major Persian invasions of Greece, 490 and 480 B.C.E., in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea each time. | 24 | |
| 201624554 | Hellenistic Era | period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia | 25 | |
| 201624555 | Ionia | region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks | 26 | |
| 201624556 | Mauryan Empire | The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes. (184) | 27 | |
| 201624557 | pax Romana | means "Roman Peace;" specifically the term that refers to the peace and stability that Rome maintained within its borders during the early empire. | 28 | |
| 201624558 | Persian Empire | an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC | 29 | |
| 201624559 | 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 | 30 | |
| 201624560 | Wudi | Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength | 31 |
