4774033013 | Roman Republic | The period from 507 to 31 BCE, Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate. | 0 | |
4774040116 | Roman Senate | A council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families. | 1 | |
4774042172 | pardon/client relationship | In ancient Rome, a fundamental social relationship in which the patron---a wealthy and powerful individual--- provided legal and economic protection and assistance o clients... | 2 | |
4774049543 | Augustus | Honorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate... | 3 | |
4774055626 | equites | In ancient Italy, prosperous landowners second in wealth and status to the senatorial aristocracy. | 4 | |
4774058943 | pax romana | literally, "Roman peace", it connoted the stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the land of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E..... | 5 | |
4774061592 | Romanization | The process by which the Latin language and roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire...... | 6 | |
4774064174 | Jesus | A Jew from Galilee in northern Israel.... | 7 | |
4774065522 | Paul | Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia.. follower of Jesus... separate Christianity separated from Judaism. | 8 | |
4774070526 | aqueduct | A conduit, either elevated or underground, using gravity to carry water from a source to a location that needed it... | 9 | |
4774074212 | Third-century crisis | Historians' term for the political, military, and economic turmoil that beset the Roman Empire during much of the third century CE: frequent changes of ruler... | 10 | |
4774077986 | Constantine | Roman emperor(312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire, he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a favored religion. | 11 | |
4774082303 | Qin | A people and state in the Wei Vally of western China... | 12 | |
4774083067 | She Huangdi | Founder of the Qin dynasty | 13 | |
4774083608 | Han | 1 汉人 2汉朝 | 14 | |
4774085284 | Xiongnu | confederation of nomadic people living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China.最后被干了 | 15 | |
4774087789 | Chang'an | City in the Wei Valley in eastern China. | 16 | |
4774089676 | monsoon | 季风 seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temp between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean water...,.. | 17 | |
4774092310 | Vedas | Early Indian scared "Knowledge- the literal meaning of the term,- long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down. | 18 | |
4774118440 | varna | 种姓制度 category of social identity of great importance in Indian history..... | 19 | |
4774120769 | jati | Within the system of varna are many regional groups of people who have a common occupational sphere, and who marry, eat, and generally interact with other members of their group. | 20 | |
4774124491 | Karma | Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a spirit... next life cycle | 21 | |
4774126861 | moksha | 解脱The Hindu concept of the spirit's liberation from the endless cycle of rebirths | 22 | |
4774128537 | Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama | 23 | |
4774131537 | Mahayana Buddhism | 大乘Great Vehicle branch of Buddhism followed in China | 24 | |
4774133315 | Theravada Buddhism | 小乘 Way of the Elders branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. | 25 | |
4774206232 | Hinduism | A general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have develop in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity.... | 26 | |
4774206233 | Mauryan Empire | 孔雀王朝 the first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE and survived until 184 BCE. | 27 | |
4774210945 | Ashoka | third ru;er pf the Mauryan Empire in India(270-232 BCE) | 28 | |
4774211815 | Mahabharata | 史诗A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India...... | 29 | |
4774214984 | Bhagavad-Gita | 史诗中最有名的The most important work of Indian scared literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit. | 30 | |
4774219899 | Tamil kingdoms | The kingdoms of southern India, inhabited primarily by speakers of Dravidian languages, which developed in partial isolation, and somewhat differently, from the Aryan north.They produced epics, poetry, and performance arts. | 31 | |
4774224769 | Gupta Empire | A 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. | 32 | |
4774229012 | theater-state | Historians' term for a state that acquire prestige and powder by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies to attract and bind subject | 33 | |
4774260848 | Funan | An early complex society in Southeast Asia between the first and sixth centuries CE. it was centered in the rich rice-growing region of southern Vietnam....... | 34 | |
4774263401 | Srivijaya | A state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra,..... | 35 | |
4774265456 | Borobodur | A massive stone monument on the Indonesian island of java,...... buddhist allegory for the progressive stages of enlightenment. | 36 |
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