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4774033013Roman RepublicThe period from 507 to 31 BCE, Rome was largely governed by the aristocratic Roman Senate.0
4774040116Roman SenateA council whose members were the heads of wealthy, landowning families.1
4774042172pardon/client relationshipIn 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
4774049543AugustusHonorific name of Octavian, founder of the Roman Principate, the military dictatorship that replaced the failing rule of the Roman Senate...3
4774055626equitesIn ancient Italy, prosperous landowners second in wealth and status to the senatorial aristocracy.4
4774058943pax romanaliterally, "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
4774061592RomanizationThe process by which the Latin language and roman culture became dominant in the western provinces of the Roman Empire......6
4774064174JesusA Jew from Galilee in northern Israel....7
4774065522PaulJew from the Greek city of Tarsus in Anatolia.. follower of Jesus... separate Christianity separated from Judaism.8
4774070526aqueductA conduit, either elevated or underground, using gravity to carry water from a source to a location that needed it...9
4774074212Third-century crisisHistorians' 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
4774077986ConstantineRoman emperor(312-337). After reuniting the Roman Empire, he moved the capital to Constantinople and made Christianity a favored religion.11
4774082303QinA people and state in the Wei Vally of western China...12
4774083067She HuangdiFounder of the Qin dynasty13
4774083608Han1 汉人 2汉朝14
4774085284Xiongnuconfederation of nomadic people living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China.最后被干了15
4774087789Chang'anCity in the Wei Valley in eastern China.16
4774089676monsoon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
4774092310VedasEarly Indian scared "Knowledge- the literal meaning of the term,- long preserved and communicated orally by Brahmin priests and eventually written down.18
4774118440varna种姓制度 category of social identity of great importance in Indian history.....19
4774120769jatiWithin 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
4774124491KarmaIndian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a spirit... next life cycle21
4774126861moksha解脱The Hindu concept of the spirit's liberation from the endless cycle of rebirths22
4774128537BuddhaSiddhartha Gautama23
4774131537Mahayana Buddhism大乘Great Vehicle branch of Buddhism followed in China24
4774133315Theravada Buddhism小乘 Way of the Elders branch of Buddhism followed in Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia.25
4774206232HinduismA general term for a wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have develop in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity....26
4774206233Mauryan 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
4774210945Ashokathird ru;er pf the Mauryan Empire in India(270-232 BCE)28
4774211815Mahabharata史诗A vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in early India......29
4774214984Bhagavad-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
4774219899Tamil kingdomsThe 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
4774224769Gupta EmpireA 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
4774229012theater-stateHistorians' term for a state that acquire prestige and powder by developing attractive cultural forms and staging elaborate public ceremonies to attract and bind subject33
4774260848FunanAn 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
4774263401SrivijayaA state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra,.....35
4774265456BorobodurA massive stone monument on the Indonesian island of java,...... buddhist allegory for the progressive stages of enlightenment.36

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