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| 8104799137 | Christianity | a religion that is monotheistic and is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. | 0 | |
| 8104817392 | Attila the Hun | Leader of the Huns who extended from Germany to China, and had part in the declines of the Han, Gupta, and Roman Empires. | 1 | |
| 8104821914 | Kush | conquered Egypt in 750 BCE | 2 | |
| 8104826338 | Axum | conquered Kush in 300 BCE, but was later overthrown by Ethiopia.. | 3 | |
| 8104843062 | Japan | by 200 CE had developed extensive agriculture. Their religion was Shintoism, which believed in the spirits of nature. | 4 | |
| 8104852310 | Aztec | centered in central and southern Mexico, in the city of Teotihuacan, and the empire there was second in size only to Rome. | 5 | |
| 8104854817 | Maya | centered in Central America, by 900 CE the empire was mostly deserted, it is not clear why. | 6 | |
| 8104854818 | Incas | rose to power in 800 CE in Peru, and expanded a giant empire across most of western South America. | 7 | |
| 8104941254 | Polynesia | a group of many islands scattered through the Pacific Ocean began to develop, and people began to create new isolated cultures. | 8 | |
| 8104969324 | Mahayana | the Chinese version of Buddhism. | 9 | |
| 8104974605 | Plague | many plagues were the reasons for the declines of large empires because they decreased the size of the population, which led to a weaker economy and empire. | 10 | |
| 8104988924 | Islam | emerged in the Middle East in the 6th century. | 11 | |
| 8105011091 | Han Dynasty: Decline and Fall of | bureaucrats became corrupted, while landowners avoided taxes. There were internal uprisings through the formation of private armies, and there were external attacks from the Huns that shook the already decentralized and corrupt government. It then fell into turmoil until 618 CE. | 12 | |
| 8105013011 | Gupta Dynasty: Decline and Fall of | the Huns invaded this empire as well, which was unstable due to corrupt and low quality government officials. In 550 CE, it collapsed, and since then, Hinduism and the caste system have ruled India, and allowed it to expand into one of the largest countries in the world. | 13 | |
| 8105013012 | Rome: Decline and Fall of | political brutality and tax collections in addition to a smaller population due to a high mortality rate because of disease hurt Rome and many surrounding kingdoms, which in turn created political and economical turmoil that could not be reversed. The government became decentralized with a second capital in Constantinople, and Germanic Huns then invaded and finished the job. | 14 | |
| 8105087141 | Byzantine Empire | the empire that rose in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire after the fall. Constantinople was the center of this Empire that maintained Hellenistic culture. | 15 |
