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5945953934Gupta Empireancient Indian empire, from approx. 320 to 550 CE - Golden Age of India0
5945953935Mauryan Empirelarge ancient Indian empire, from 322-185 BCE1
5945953936Zoroastrianismmonotheistic Religion in Ancient Persia2
5945953937polisGreek city state3
5945953938CharlemagneChristian emperor, crowned in 800 CE, unified central Europe after migration period4
5945953939three-field systemcrop rotation system in feudal Europe5
5945953940Bantu Migrationseries of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (Bantu languages)6
5945953941Tang Dynastyimperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 - major influence on Korea and Japan, gun-powder was invented7
5945953944janissarieselite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and bodyguards8
5945953945Suleiman the Magnificentlongest-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 France9
5945953946Safavidsone of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia, often considered the beginning of modern Persian history (gunpowder empire)10
5945953948Hanseatic Leaguecommercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns - dominated Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400-180011
5945953949mit'amandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire - it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system12
5945953950ayllutraditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras13
5945953951chinampastype of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico14
5945953952caravelsmall, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries15
5945953953Atahualpalast Inca king emperor, overthrown by Spanish conquistador Pizzaro16
5945953954Moctezumalast Aztec emperor, overthown by Spanish conquistador Cortès17
5945953955Jesuitsmembers of a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1534 to do missionary work18
5945953956King Louis XIV"le Roi-Soleil", his reign was characterized by a magnificent court, the expansion of French influence, and the establishment of overseas colonies19
5945953957Nicholas CopernicusRenaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe20
5945953958Bartolome de las Casas16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar - the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians"21
5945953959Potosione of the highest cities in the world (13,420 ft) - for centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint22
5945953960encomiendathe system, instituted in 1503, under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a tract of land or a village together with its Indian inhabitants23
5945953961mitaforced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru24
5945953963Toussaint L'OuvertureLeader in the Haitian revolution25
5945953964Agricultural Revolution (modern era)an increase in agricultural productivity in Great Britain which helped drive the Industrial Revolution26
5945953965Adam Smitheconomist and author of "The Wealth of Nations", which many consider the single most important economic work in history27
5945953968Otto von Bismark19th century Germany chancellor28

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