4127148156 | Hittites | ancient Anatolian empire around 1600 BC, known for their early use of iron | 0 | |
4127148737 | Kush | ancient African Nubian kingdom situated south of Ancient Egypt | 1 | |
4127149468 | Neo-Assyiran Empire | Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 612 BC | 2 | |
4127149469 | Diaspora | a scattered population - if capitalized, it refers to the expulsion of Jews from Judea | 3 | |
4127150003 | Minoan civilization | Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete / Greece | 4 | |
4127155034 | Mycenaean civilization | the first advanced civilization in mainland Greece (later than Minoans) | 5 | |
4127156042 | Srivijaya | city-state in Sumatra, Indonesia - important center for the expansion of Buddhism (8th to the 12th century) | 6 | |
4127156043 | Gupta Empire | ancient Indian empire, from approx. 320 to 550 CE - Golden Age of India | 7 | |
4127156756 | Mauryan Empire | large ancient Indian empire, from 322-185 BCE | 8 | |
4127157864 | Mahayana Buddhism | main branch of Buddhism, seeking complete enlightenment | 9 | |
4127158371 | Theravada Buddhism | branch of Buddhism based on the Pāli Canon, a collection of the oldest recorded Buddhist texts - dominant in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand | 10 | |
4127159015 | Zoroastrianism | monotheistic Religion in Ancient Persia | 11 | |
4127159016 | satrap | provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire | 12 | |
4127211125 | polis | Greek city state | 13 | |
4127211126 | hoplite | heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece | 14 | |
4127211700 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution | 15 | |
4127211701 | equites | a class of citizens who originally formed the cavalry of the Roman army and at a later period were a wealthy class of great political importance | 16 | |
4127212427 | Third Century Crisis | (AD) period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed (invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression) | 17 | |
4127212428 | Charlemagne | Christian emperor, crowned in 800 CE, unified central Europe after migration period | 18 | |
4127213333 | three-field system | crop rotation system in feudal Europe | 19 | |
4127213334 | Hadith | Islam - collection of teachings of Mohammed | 20 | |
4127214522 | Umayyad Caliphate | the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad | 21 | |
4127214523 | Abbasid Caliphate | the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad | 22 | |
4127215297 | stirrup | gives greater stability to a rider, very significant invention in the history of warfare, prior to gunpowder | 23 | |
4127215298 | Bantu Migration | series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (Bantu languages) | 24 | |
4127217395 | Tang Dynasty | imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 - major influence on Korea and Japan, gun-powder was invented | 25 | |
4127218259 | Jurchen/Jin Empire | non-Chinese people living in the northeast of China, conquered northern China and founded the Jin dynasty (1115-1234) | 26 | |
4127218766 | Koryo | dynasty that ruled the Korean peninsula as the Koryŏ kingdom from 935 to 1392 | 27 | |
4127218767 | Timur | also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia | 28 | |
4127220596 | Ibn Khaldun | Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern sociology, historiography, demography, and economics | 29 | |
4127221775 | Nasir al-Din Tusi | Persian polymath (writer, architect, astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, ...) | 30 | |
4127221776 | Yongle | the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China, initiated the construction of Zheng He's treasure fleet in 1403 | 31 | |
4127222356 | Kangxi | fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty, longest reigning emperor (61 years), blocked Tsarist Russia on the Amur River and expanded the empire in the northwest | 32 | |
4127222357 | Kamikaze | (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target | 33 | |
4127223196 | Ashikaga Shogunate | dynasty originating from one of the plethora of Japanese daimyo which governed Japan from 1338 to 1573 | 34 | |
4127224264 | Tokugawa Shogunate | also known as Edo, last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1867 | 35 | |
4127224768 | Delhi Sultanate | various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India (1210-1526) | 36 | |
4127224769 | Great Zimbabwe | capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age (11th - 15th century CE) | 37 | |
4127225227 | janissaries | elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards | 38 | |
4127225816 | Suleiman the Magnificent | longest-reigning Great Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566 - was called the "Law Giver" due to many reforms, formed an alliance with France | 39 | |
4127226533 | devshirme | also known as the blood tax, practice by which the Ottoman Empire took boys, sons of their Christian subjects, converted them to Islam and trained them for the military or civil service, notably into the Janissaries | 40 | |
4127226534 | Safavids | one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia, often considered the beginning of modern Persian history (gunpowder empire) | 41 | |
4127227082 | Cossacks | group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Russia and in Ukraine | 42 | |
4127227083 | Hanseatic League | commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns - dominated Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400-1800 | 43 | |
4127227543 | Olmecs | first major civilization in Mexico dating roughly from as early as 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE, known for the colossal head sculptures | 44 | |
4127227544 | Chavin | prehistoric culture in Peru | 45 | |
4127228485 | verticality (economics) | relating to or involving all stages from production to sale: | 46 | |
4127229081 | Wari / Tiwanaku | political formation that emerged around AD 600 in the central highlands of Peru and lasted for about 500 years, to 1100 AD | 47 | |
4127229522 | mit'a | mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire - it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system | 48 | |
4127229523 | ayllu | traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras | 49 | |
4127231471 | Moche | civilization that flourished in northern Peru from about 100 AD to 800 AD - more like city states rather than an empire | 50 | |
4127232237 | chinampas | type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico | 51 | |
4127232238 | caravel | small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries | 52 | |
4127232239 | Atahualpa | last Inca king emperor, overthrown by Spanish conquistador Pizzaro | 53 | |
4127233175 | Moctezuma | last Aztec emperor, overthown by Spanish conquistador Cortès | 54 | |
4127233176 | Jesuits | members of a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 to do missionary work | 55 | |
4127233996 | Edict of Nantes | granted in 1598 the Calvinist Protestants of France (Huguenots) substantial rights | 56 | |
4127234494 | King Louis XIV | "le Roi-Soleil", his reign was characterized by a magnificent court, the expansion of French influence, and the establishment of overseas colonies | 57 | |
4127234495 | Nicholas Copernicus | Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe | 58 | |
4127237600 | Council of Indies | most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire for the Americas and Asia | 59 | |
4127238105 | Bartolome de las Casas | 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar - the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians" | 60 | |
4127238786 | Potosi | one of the highest cities in the world (13,420 ft) - for centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint | 61 | |
4127238787 | encomienda | the system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants | 62 | |
4127239371 | mita | forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru | 63 | |
4127240168 | Rebellion of Tupac Amaru II | uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru | 64 | |
4127241859 | indentured servant | a person who is bound to work for another for a specified period of time, esp. such a person who came to America during the colonial period. | 65 | |
4127244664 | Iroquois Confederacy | alliance of five, later six, American Indian tribes—the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora—located in modern-day New York state | 66 | |
4127245101 | plantocracy | a population of planters regarded as the dominant class, especially in the West Indies | 67 | |
4127245929 | manumission | the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves | 68 | |
4127245930 | Great Circuit | Trade Route from Europe to Africa, Africa to Americas, Americas to Europe | 69 | |
4127246584 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Leader in the Haitian revolution | 70 | |
4127248234 | Agricultural Revolution (modern era) | an increase in agricultural productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution | 71 | |
4127248235 | Adam Smith | economist and author of "The Wealth of Nations", which many consider the single most important economic work in history | 72 | |
4127249596 | Thomas Malthus | 18th-century British philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about population growth | 73 | |
4127250364 | Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo | peace treaty between the USA and the Mexican Republic, signed in 1848 | 74 | |
4127250365 | Zulus | People in Southeast Africa - fought war with Boers | 75 | |
4127250880 | Tanzimat | series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire that brought the culture, education, religion and society more in line with Europe and the United States and western ways | 76 | |
4127251707 | Victorian Age | 19th century England during reign of Queen Victoria | 77 | |
4127252130 | separate spheres | ideology that defines and prescribes separate spheres for women and men - emerged as a distinct ideology during the Industrial Revolution, although the basic idea is much older | 78 | |
4127252680 | Otto von Bismark | 19th century Germany chancellor | 79 | |
4127253314 | Battle of Omdurman | British army defeated the Sudanese army in 1898 - demonstration of the superiority of a modern European army over a vastly larger force armed with older weapons | 80 | |
4127253315 | Afrikaners | South Africans of Dutch decent | 81 | |
4127254026 | Boer War (South African War) | Wars between the Boers an the English in South Africa | 82 | |
4127254027 | Asante | nation and ethnic group native to Ashanti in modern-day Ghana | 83 | |
4127254551 | Emilio Aguinaldo | Filipino revolutionary, politician, and a military leader who is officially recognized as the First President of the Philippines (1899-1901) | 84 | |
4127254552 | Queen Liliuokalani | last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii | 85 | |
4127255445 | Balfour Declaration | Confirming support from the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a "national home" for the Jewish people | 86 | |
4127256115 | Guomindang / Kuomintang | Chinese National Party | 87 | |
4127256116 | Kemal Ataturk | Turkish revolutionary and the first President of Turkey, credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey (1919) | 88 | |
4127256688 | Munich Conference | settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia | 89 | |
4127256689 | Haile Selassie | Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1974 | 90 | |
4127257522 | African National Congress | ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994, including the election of Nelson Mandela as president from 1994-1999 | 91 | |
4127257523 | Indian National Congress | one of two major political parties in India (the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party) - founded in 1885 during the British Raj | 92 | |
4127263469 | Jawaharlal Nehru | first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence | 93 |
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