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3556937487AP regionsW. Europe; E. Europe; E. Asia; SE Asia; N Africa; W Africa; E Africa; S Africa; Latin America; Oceania; Central Africa0
3556948996Ghana, Mali, SonghayW. Africa1
3556949961Aksum, EthiopiaE. Africa2
3556953246KongoEquatorial Africa3
3556953247ChinaE. Asia4
3556954784IndiaS. Asia5
3556956269RussiaE. Europe6
3556957342E. EuropeByzantium7
3556958616Abbasid CaliphateMiddle East8
3556958618JapanE. Asia9
3556959693VietnamSE Asia10
3556962630Delhi Sultanate, MughalsS. Asia11
3556962631Ottoman EmpireE. Europe, Middle East12
3556992379Area of protestant reformation, commercial revolution, and the enlightenmentW. Europe13
3556998652Foundations Period8000BCE-600BCE14
3556999728Classical Era600BCE-600CE15
3557001229Post-classical Era600CE-1450CE16
3557004956Early Modern Era1450CE-1750CE17
3557006503Modern Era1750CE-1914CE18
3557007941Contemporary Era1914-Present19
3557613481River Valley CivilizationsFoundations20
3557616019Zhou, Qin, HanClassical21
3557620097Ancient Greece & RomeClassical22
3557622298Maurya & GuptaClassical23
3557625456Rise of the MayaClassical24
3557627123Delhi SultanatePostclassical25
3557627124Mughal EmpireEarly Modern26
3557631389Ghana, Mali, SonghayPostclassical27
3557634347Feudal Japan Era beginsPostclassical28
3557639201Rise Incas & AztecsPostclassical29
3557642099Umayyad & Abbasid CaliphatesPostclassical30
3557642100ByzantiumPostclassical31
3557643821Kievan RusPostclassical32
3557646494Sui, Tang, SongPostclassical33
3557648413CrusadesPostclassical34
3557649781Commercial Revolution in EuropeEarly Modern35
3557651481Zhenghe ExpeditionsPostclassical36
3557653513Mongol EmpirePostclassical37
3557656097Protestant ReformationEarly Modern38
3557658417Early ModernEuropean Colonization of Americas39
3557662846eqalitarianpromoting social equality40
3557666051bureaucracyhierarchy of specialized officials administering policies of an institution, especially a government41
3557673336civil service systemgovernment bureaucracy whose posts are awarded based on competitive exams42
3557678430centralizedpower concentrated in the center, especially political power concentrated in the hands of one leader/emperor or executive body43
3557685967decentralizedpower dispersed among many different points, especially political power distributed among many different nobles/landowners/leaders/regions44
3557695090scholar-gentryaristocratic Chinese social class of landowning Confucian officials (Song China)45
3557699919aristocratmember of a social class thought to be superior (or noble) often by virtue of the family they were born into; often possess special political, religious and economic privileges, especially the owning of large amounts of land46
3557710868ideologyoverall system of beliefs, values and goals that make up the worldview of an individual or a group (political, religious, economic, social)47
3557718642institutionimportant, formal organization of individuals in a civilization working for a common purpose; (governments, churches, universities, corporations)48
3557726059empirea state which rules over a great amount of territory49
3557728854feudalismdecentralized socio-political organization created by nobles exchanging land for formal oaths of service and protection; especially with strong militaristic values and an elite class of specialized warriors (W. Europe - 800CE-1000CE; late Zhou China, Postclassical Japan)50
3557748257orthodoxconforming to the central, authoritative beliefs, especially with regard to religion51
3557752697social classranking in society denoting privileges and restrictions, often arising from wealth, birth and/or occupation52
3557759170casterefers to a sharply rigid class system based on heredity with little to no chance of mobility (India)53
3557766176hierarchyranking system of individuals of a few with elite standing and more with lesser standing (i.e. a triangular structure; ex. political/military/church/social hierarchies)54
3557782129consolidate (as in territory)to join together securely into one whole (ex. establishing full power over conquered lands and making them fully a part of the original state)55
3557790107assimilate (as in peoples)to absorb a group into a culture; a group that is assimilated adopts many if the traits of another culture56
3557796104manufacturingthe making of goods by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale; often involved the use of techniques or technologies that are advanced for the time (ex. the production of silk in China or cotton in India)57
3557808616diffusionthe spreading of features from one culture to another, as in the spread of religions or technologies (ex. the diffusion of Buddhism from India to E & SE Asia)58
3557821169coercive labor systeman institution in which workers are compelled to work by force, intimidation, or authority, often against their will (ex. serfdom, slavery)59
3557828929regionalan area divided into fully or partially autonomous (independent) areas or states; often the result of geographic barriers (ex. desert, mountains, jungle), diversity or distance (ex. India)60
3557842260legitimizeto make lawful, to make acceptable, or to justify; can refer to the justification for a particular government or ruler or to establishing a belief system as acceptable (ex. the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven legitimized Chinese dynasties)61
3557854667commercialengaged in trade or pertaining to trade and the exchange of goods and services. A commercial class is involved directly (a merchant) or indirectly (a banker) in trade. A commercial policy is intended to impact trade62
3557873448caliphaterefers to the area of governed by a caliph or to the office of the caliph, a political and religious leader in Islam. Historically, the caliphate refers to the Muslim empire, governed by the last caliph that lasted from the death of Muhammad to the murder of the last caliph by the Mongols63
3557893729demographican important characteristic or statistic of a human population, as in death rate, migration, religious, or racial composition, etc.64
3557905429mysticala belief system in which there is direct connection between a person's soul and God or the ultimate reality; especially a system which disregards orthodox beliefs in favor of a more intuitive, possible ecstatic, religious experience (ex. Sufism)65
3557919827animisticthe belief in the existence of individual spirits that inhabit natural objects, such as rivers, trees, or mountains, and phenomena, such as storms or floods (ex. Central Africa in the postclassical age)66
3557931975rationalismreliance on the human ability to reason as the best guide for belief and action. Rationalist philosophies focus on the use of reason (as opposed to faith, tradition or authority) to understand the world and morality; rationalism in religion is the reliance on resin as the best way to understand doctrine67
3557950333full attentionyou must be able to give your full attention to whatever you are memorizing68
3557953173chunkingyour brain wants things to be in sets of 3 or 4; look for patterns, familiar elements, or other ways to break the material into groups of 3 or 4 familiar elements (if possible)69
3557973868RAGER-religion; A-artistic; G-geographic; E-economic70
3557973869SPITS-social; P-political; I-intellectual; T-technological71
3557973870IKEAI- interest; K-knowledge; E-emotion; A-audience72
3557973871COKEC-credible; O-omitted; K-known; E-exaggerate73
3558021129STUDY THE ESSAY SKILLSadditional doc; POV; DBQ; analysis74

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