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| 7590225981 | Achaemenids | First Great Persian empire, which began under Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius | 0 | |
| 7590225982 | Satrapy | provence governed by a satrap. a satrap is a persian administrator, usually members of the royal family | 1 | |
| 7590231000 | persian wars | The wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world. | 2 | |
| 7590238931 | Seleucids | Persian empire founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great | 3 | |
| 7590238932 | Parthians | Persian dynasty that reached its peak under Mithradates I | 4 | |
| 7590238933 | Sasanids | Later powerful Persian Dynasty that would reach its peak under Shapur I and later fall to Arabic expansion | 5 | |
| 7590244383 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based on the teaching of the sixth-century B.C.E prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religious | 6 | |
| 7590244384 | Confucianism | Philosophy, based on the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Kong Fuzi, or Confucius, that emphasizes order, the role of the gentleman, obligation to society, and the reciprocity | 7 | |
| 7590248459 | Daoism | Chinese philosophy philosophy with origins in the Zhou dynasty; it is associated with legendary philosopher Laozi, and it called for a policy of non competition. | 8 | |
| 7590251738 | Legalism | Chinese philosopher from the Zhou dynasty that called for harsh suppression of the common people of the common people | 9 | |
| 7590255385 | Yellow Turban Uprising | The Yellow Turban Rebellion, also translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a peasant revolt in China against the Eastern Han dynasty. The uprising broke out in 184 CE during the reign of Emperor Ling | 10 | |
| 7590255386 | Arthrastra | Ancient Indian political treatise from the time of Chandragupta Maurya; its authorship was traditionally inscribed to Kautilya, and it stressed that war was inevitable | 11 | |
| 7590260268 | Kushan Empire | a syncretic empire, formed by Yuezhi, in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. | 12 | |
| 7590260269 | White Huns | Image result for white hunsen.wikipedia.org The White Huns were a race of largely nomadic peoples who were a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia. They ruled over an expansive area stretching from the Central Asian lands all the way to the Western Indian Subcontinent. | 13 | |
| 7590264005 | Caste | each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status. | 14 | |
| 7590264006 | Jainism | Indian religion associated with the teacher Vardhamana Mahavira in which every physical object possessed a soul; Jains believe in complete nonviolence to all living things | 15 | |
| 7590264007 | Buddhism | Religion, based in Four Noble Truths, associated with Siddhartha Gautama or the Buddha; its adherents desired to eliminate all distracting passion and reach nirvana | 16 | |
| 7590268900 | Hinduism | Main religion of India, a combination of Dravidian and Aryan concepts; Hinduism's goals is to reach spiritual purity and union with the great world spirit; its important concepts include dharma, kharms and samsara | 17 | |
| 7590272169 | Mahayana | The "greatest vehicle", a more metaphysical and more popular northern branch of Buddhism | 18 | |
| 7590272170 | Bodhisattva | Buddhist concept regarding individuals who had reached enlightenment but who stayed in this world to help people | 19 | |
| 7590588667 | Bhagavad Gita | "Song of the Lord", an Indian short poetic work drawn from the lengthy Mahabharata that was finished around 400 C.E and that expressed basic Hindu concepts such as karma and dharma | 20 | |
| 7590595117 | Minoan Society | Society located on the island of Crete that influenced the early Mycenaean. | 21 | |
| 7590599231 | Mycenaean Society | Early Greek society on the Peloponnese that was influenced by the Minoans; the Mycenaeans' conflict with Troy is immortalized in Homer's Odyssey | 22 | |
| 7590601721 | Trojan War | Trojan War definition. In classical mythology, the great war fought between the Greeks and the Trojans. The Greeks sailed to Troy in order to recover Helen of Troy, the beautiful wife of a Greek king. | 23 | |
| 7590601722 | Sparta | An ancient Greek city-state and rival of Athens. Sparta was known for its militaristic government and for its educational system designed to train children to be devoted citizens and brave soldiers. Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War. | 24 | |
| 7590601723 | Athens | Capital of Greece in east-central Greece on the plain of Attica, overlooking an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. Named after its patron goddess, Athena, is Greece's largest city and its cultural, administrative, and economic center. | 25 | |
| 7590610330 | Peloponnesian War | an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. | 26 | |
| 7590614186 | Cult of DIonysus | trongly associated with satyrs, centaurs, and sileni, and its characteristic symbols are the bull, the serpent, tigers/leopards, the ivy, and the wine. | 27 | |
| 7590616753 | Stoicism | Hellenistic philosophers who encouraged their followers to lead active, virtuous lives and to aid others | 28 | |
| 7590616754 | Epicureans | a disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. | 29 | |
| 7590621048 | Etruscans | a native of ancient Etruria. | 30 | |
| 7590621049 | Punic Wars | Image result for punic wars definition The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. At the time, they were one of the largest wars that had ever taken place | 31 | |
| 7590624844 | Twelve Tables | According to Roman tradition, the Law of the Twelve Tables (Latin: Leges Duodecim Tabularum or Duodecim Tabulae) was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws. | 32 | |
| 7590624845 | Patricians | Roman aristocrats and wealthy classes | 33 | |
| 7590628207 | Plebeians | Roman common people | 34 | |
| 7590628208 | Mithraism | Mystery religion based on worship of the sun god Mithras; it became popular among the Romans because of its promise of salvation | 35 | |
| 7590632025 | Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews. | 36 | |
| 7590632026 | Christianity | the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. | 37 | |
| 7590636656 | Silk Road | The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea. | 38 | |
| 7590639621 | Edict of Milan | The Edict of Milan was a letter signed by the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius, that proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire. The letter was issued in 313, shortly after the end of the persecution of Christians by the emperor Diocletian. | 39 | |
| 7590646676 | Council of Nicaea | Council of Nicaea, (325), the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, meeting in ancient Nicaea (now İznik, Tur.). It was called by the emperor Constantine I, an unbaptized catechumen, or neophyte, who presided over the opening session and took part in the discussions. | 40 | |
| 7590658885 | Monsoon System | the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter. | 41 | |
| 7590666069 | Cyrus | founder of the Persian empire | 42 | |
| 7590666070 | Darius | Darius I was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak | 43 | |
| 7590669684 | Xerxes | Xerxes I, called Xerxes the Great, was the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. Like his predecessor Darius I, he ruled the empire at its territorial apex. | 44 | |
| 7590672509 | Zarathustra | Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism | 45 | |
| 7590674756 | Confucius | Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. | 46 | |
| 7590674757 | The Analects | The Analects, also known as the Analects of Confucius, is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius' followers. | 47 | |
| 7590678553 | Laozi | Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. | 48 | |
| 7590678554 | Liu Bang | Emperor Gaozu of Han, born Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigning from 202 - 195 BC. He was one of the few dynasty founders in Chinese history who rose from humble origins as a member of the peasant class. | 49 | |
| 7590680992 | Han Wudi | Emperor Wu of Han, born Liu Che, courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China, ruling from 141-87 BC. His reign lasted 54 years — a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later. | 50 | |
| 7590687055 | Chandragupta Maurya | Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. He was born in a humble family, orphaned and abandoned, raised as a son by another pastoral family | 51 | |
| 7590687056 | Ashoka | Emperor Ashoka the Great lived from 304 to 232 BCE and was the third ruler of the Indian Mauryan Empire, the largest ever in the Indian subcontinent and one of the world's largest empires at its time. | 52 | |
| 7590692885 | Chandra Gupta | 53 | ||
| 7590697059 | Vardhamana Mahavira | Mahavira, also known as Vardhamāna, was the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of Jainism. | 54 | |
| 7590701038 | Siddhartha Gautama | Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. | 55 | |
| 7590701039 | Homer | name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems which are the central works of ancient Greek literature. | 56 | |
| 7590706010 | Pericles | Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. | 57 | |
| 7590708771 | Philip II | 58 | ||
| 7590708772 | Socrates | Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. | 59 | |
| 7590711096 | Plato | Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. | 60 | |
| 7590711097 | Aristotle | Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. | 61 | |
| 7590799375 | Euripides | Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians a number of whose plays have survived | 62 | |
| 7590812666 | Aristophanes | son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. | 63 | |
| 7590818857 | Romulus | sons of Rhea Silvia, herself the daughter of Numitor, the former king of Alba Longa | 64 | |
| 7590824205 | Gracchi Brothers | Roman Popularis politician in the 2nd century BC and brother of the reformer Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. | 65 | |
| 7590905728 | Lucius Cornelius Sulla | a Roman general and statesman. He had the distinction of holding the office of consul twice, as well as reviving the dictatorship | 66 | |
| 7590908253 | Julius Caesar | a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. | 67 | |
| 7590925419 | Augustus Caesar | founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. | 68 | |
| 7590925420 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 69 | |
| 7590929507 | Carthaginians | an inhabitant of the ancient African city of Carthage. | 70 | |
| 7590929508 | Diocletian | Roman emperor from 284 to 305. Born to a family of low status in Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become roman cavalry commander to the Emperor Carus. | 71 | |
| 7590939627 | Constantine | Roman Emperor of Illyrian-Greek origin from 306 to 337 AD. He was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman Army officer, and his consort Helena. | 72 | |
| 7590939628 | Attila | him and his brother, Bleda, were named co-rulers of the Huns in 434. Upon murdering his brother in 445 became the 5th century king of the Hunnic Empire, and the sole ruler of the Huns | 73 | |
| 7590942772 | Odovacer | soldier who in 476 became the first King of Italy (476-493). His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire. | 74 | |
| 7591157930 | St. Augustine | foremost philosopher-theologians of early Christianity and the leading figure in the church of North Africa. ... His two most celebrated writings are his semiautobiographical Confessions and City of God, a Christian vision of history. | 75 |
