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| 5020797898 | Axum | Kingdom located in Ethiopian highlands; replaced Meroë in first century CE; received strong influence from Arabian peninsula; eventually converted to Christianity. | 0 | |
| 5020797899 | Ethiopia | A Christian kingdom the developed in the highlands of Eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expanision elsewhere in Africa. | 1 | |
| 5020797900 | Sahara | Desert running across northern Africa; separates the Mediterranean coast from southern Africa. | 2 | |
| 5020797901 | Shintoism | Religion of early Japanese culture; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayers made to gods and nature spirits. | 3 | |
| 5020797902 | Civilizations of Central and South America | Three cultural hearths are represented: Mesoamerica, extending from north-central Mexico to Nicaragua; the Andean region in South America, and the Intermediate zone of modern-day Colombia and Panama, which shared many characteristics with the other zones but did no build in stone. | 4 | |
| 5020797903 | Teotihuacan | Site of classic culture in central Mexico; urban center with important religious functions; supported by intensive agriculture in surrounding regions; population of as much as 200,000. | 5 | |
| 5020797904 | Maya | Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central America contemporary with Teotihuacan; extended over broad region; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendrical and mathematical systems, highly developed religion. | 6 | |
| 5020797905 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire incorporating various Andean cultures; term also used for leader of empire. | 7 | |
| 5020797906 | Polynesia | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island. | 8 | |
| 5020797907 | Yellow Turbans | Chinese Daoists who launched a revolt in 184 CE in China promising a golden age to be brought about by divine magic. | 9 | |
| 5020797908 | Sui | Dynasty that succeeded the Han in China; emerged from strong rulers in northern China; united all of northern China and reconquered southern China. | 10 | |
| 5020797909 | Tang | Dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 CE; more stable than previous dynasty. | 11 | |
| 5020797910 | Harsha | Ruler who followed Guptas in India; briefly contructed a loose empire in northern India between 616 and 657 CE. | 12 | |
| 5020797911 | Rajput | Regional princes in western India; emphasized military control of their religions. | 13 | |
| 5020797912 | Devi | Mother goddess within Hinduism; widely spread following collapse of Guptas; encouraged new emotionalism in religous ritual. | 14 | |
| 5020797913 | Islam | Major world religion having its origin in 610 CE in the Arabian peninsula; meaning literrally submission; based on prophecy of Muhammad. | 15 | |
| 5020797914 | Diocletian | Roman emperor from 284 to 305 CE; restored later empire by improved administration and tax collection. | 16 | |
| 5020797915 | Constantine | Roman emperor from 312 to 337 CE established second capital of Constantinople; attempted to use religious force of Christianity to unify empire spirituality. | 17 | |
| 5020797916 | Germanic Kingdoms After the Invasions | Nomadic tribes converged mainly on the western part of the Roman empire, invading Rome and its European outposts. | 18 | |
| 5020797917 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of the Roman empire following collapse of western half of old empire; retained Mediterrarnean culture, particularly Greek; later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople. | 19 | |
| 5020797918 | Augustine(Saint) | Influential church father and theologian (354-430CE) born in Africa and ultimately bishop of Hippo in Africa; champion of Christian doctrine against various heresies and very important in the long-term development of Christian thought on such issues as predestination. | 20 | |
| 5020797919 | The Mediterranean, Middle East, Europe, and North Africa | 500CE, Soon after the fall of Rome, the former empire split into three distinct zones. | 21 | |
| 5020797920 | Coptic | Christian sect in Egypt, later tolerated after Islamic takeover. | 22 | |
| 5020797921 | Mahayana | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior. | 23 | |
| 5020797922 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist holy men and women; built up spiritual merits during their lifetimes; prayers even after death could aid people to achieve reflected holiness. | 24 | |
| 5020797923 | Jesus of Nazareth | Prophet and teacher amoung the Jews; believed by Christians to be the Messiah; executed 30CE. | 25 | |
| 5020797924 | Paul | One of the first Christian missionaries; moved away from insistence that adherents of the new religion follow Jewish law; use of Greek in language of Church. | 26 | |
| 5020797925 | Pope | Bishop of Rome; head of the Christian Church in western Europe. | 27 | |
| 5020797926 | Council of Nicaea | Christian council that met in 325CE to determine orthodoxy with respect to the Trinity; insisted on divinity of all persons of the Trinity. | 28 | |
| 5020797927 | Benedict of Nursia | Founder of monasticism in what had been the western half of the Roman Empire; established Benedictine Rule in the 6th century; paralleled development of Basil's rules in Byzantine empire. | 29 |
