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| 10145805127 | Neolithic Revolution | Around 10,000 years ago (8000 BCE), as the climate was warming up from an ice age, a collection of social and political developments coalesced into what is called the Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
| 10145805128 | Domestication | The timing of wild animals so they could be brought up to live with humans | 1 | |
| 10145805129 | Overfarming | To farm so much that land looses its fertility | 2 | |
| 10145805130 | Democracy | A form of government in which citizens govern themselves by participation in the government | 3 | |
| 10145805131 | Polytheistic | Believing in many gods | 4 | |
| 10145805132 | Patriarchal | A society dominated by men | 5 | |
| 10145805133 | Delian League | Pact joined in by Athenians and other Greeks to continue the war with Persia | 6 | |
| 10145805134 | Alexander the Great | Conquered and ruled an empire stretching from Macedonia to the Indus Valley during his 13 year reign and governed his far-flung conquests by picking native residents to help him rule. | 7 | |
| 10145805135 | Pax Romana | The Roman peacetime | 8 | |
| 10145805136 | Caste system | A Hindu social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life | 9 | |
| 10145805137 | Tribute | Payments from the conquered to the conqueror | 10 | |
| 10145805138 | Kievan Rus | A settlement on the Dnieper River, ruled by Vikings and was a collection of city-states | 11 | |
| 10145805139 | Muhammad | The founder of Islam who's revelations were collected and became the Quran | 12 | |
| 10145805140 | Ibn Battuta | A scholar who traveled the medieval world and his legendary travelogue has made him a legend among historians and an example of how Islam's phenommeal growth increased connections among cultures of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe. | 13 | |
| 10145805141 | Bananas | the long, yellow fruit that originated in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific around 8000 to 5000 BCE; and served as one of the most important crops for the Bantu-Speaking groups of Africa; and due to its being nutrition rich, leading to a spike in population. | 14 | |
| 10145805142 | Malaria | An infectious and parasitic disease that was common in West Africa; causing those native to those areas to have an immunity to it, whereas those from other areas suffered from the lack of immunity. | 15 | |
| 10145805143 | Foot binding | This practice, in which girls from aristocratic families had their feet wrapped so tightly that the bones did not grow naturally, furthered the constraint on the role of women in society during the solidification of the patriarchy during the Song Dynasty. This was quite painful and often made it difficult for women to walk. | 16 | |
| 10145805144 | Bushido | In Japan's feudal society, the code followed by samurai was known as this and stressed frugality, loyalty, the martial arts, and honor unto death. | 17 | |
| 10145805145 | monsoon winds | Knowledge of these was crucial to trading in the Indian Ocean; merchants timed their voyages carefully, often remaining in port cities for months at a time, depending on when favorable winds would come their way. | 18 | |
| 10145805146 | Vassals | People who owed service to another person within the European Feudal System. | 19 | |
| 10145805147 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 20 | |
| 10145805148 | Black Death | The plague that reached Europe via trading routes. A major epidemic broke out between 1347 and 1351, and including additional outbreaks, killed roughly 25 million Europeans. | 21 | |
| 10145805149 | Vikings | The Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th-11th centuries. | 22 | |
| 10145805150 | Greenland | A large island lying to the north-east of North America and mostly within the Arctic Circle. | 23 | |
| 10145805151 | Venice | A wealthy city-state in northern Italy whom had a contract to transport crusaders tot he Middle East. | 24 | |
| 10145805152 | Crusades | The fight of European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Land, which was heavily influenced by politics and resulted in a temporary answer to the growing challenges to the Church from reformers and monarchs. | 25 | |
| 10145805153 | Mongols | From Central Asia, these nomads marched across Eurasia throughout the 13th century leaving destruction and chaos in their wake. While being the largest empire in the history of the world thanks to Genghis Khan, the reputation of slaughter spread even farther than their actual conquest. However, int heir quest for blood and treasure, the Mongols also sparked a period of interregional connection and exchange at a level that the world had not experienced in a thousand years. | 26 | |
| 10145805154 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator. While trying to find a western route to Asia, he was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe. | 27 | |
| 10145805155 | Protestant Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England | 28 | |
| 10145805156 | Smallpox | Disease brought over by the Europeans in the Columbia Exchange | 29 | |
| 10145805157 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China | 30 | |
| 10145805158 | Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages | 31 | |
| 10145805159 | Alaska | State in northwestern most North America bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north; Yukon, Canada, to the east; the Pacific Ocean to the south; and the Bering sea to the west. | 32 | |
| 10145805160 | Shariah | the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | 33 | |
| 10145805161 | Conservatism | This was the political idea in which the people regarded tradition as the basic source of human institutions and the proper state of society remained those before the French Revolution which rested on a judicious blend on monarchy, bureaucracy, aristocracy, and respectful commoners | 34 | |
| 10145805162 | United States Constitution | The government of the United States. A set of principles (guidelines) that describe the duties and powers of the government | 35 | |
| 10145805163 | Declaration of Independence | the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain | 36 | |
| 10145805164 | Urbanization | The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 37 | |
| 10145805165 | Communism | A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state | 38 | |
| 10145805166 | Monroe Doctrine | Declaration in 1823 establishing America as a completely independent country; they were supported by the British; European rules | 39 | |
| 10145805167 | Imperialism | The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding countries and dependencies. | 40 | |
| 10145805168 | concentration camps | Camps in which enemies of Hitler and the Nazi party were held. The conditions were in humane and captives usually died sooner or later | 41 | |
| 10145805169 | Poison Gas | poisonous gas or vapor, used especially to disable or kill an enemy in warfare. | 42 | |
| 10145805170 | Machine Guns | an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed. | 43 | |
| 10145805171 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Introduced the New Deal, and led the US through most of WWII and the Great Depression | 44 | |
| 10145805172 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II | 45 | |
| 10145805173 | Ghettos | a part of a city, especially a slum area, occupied by a minority group or groups. | 46 | |
| 10145805174 | Globalization | Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. Causes cultural diffusion and economic dependencies | 47 | |
| 10145805175 | AIDS | A deadly infectious disease that has killed millions across the globe. It has had the largest affect in sub-Saharan Africa where it has stalled poverty relief and is partially responsible for continued increase in poverty there | 48 | |
| 10145805176 | World Health Organization (WHO) | 1948; is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health. | 49 |
