Vocabulary
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| 12438135 | Neolithic | latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere) | 0 | |
| 12438136 | Innovation | the act of starting something for the first time | 1 | |
| 12438137 | Diffusion | the property of being diffused or dispersed | 2 | |
| 12438138 | Ziggurat | a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | 3 | |
| 12438139 | Bas Relief | a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background | 4 | |
| 12438140 | Pictogram | a written language character that is a imple picute of the object it represents. | 5 | |
| 12438141 | Cuneiform | a system of writing used in ancient Mesootamia, in which wedge-shaped characters were produced b pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet, which was then baked or otherwise hardened | 6 | |
| 12438142 | Ideogram | a graphic character used in ideography | 7 | |
| 12438143 | Gilgamesh | a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories | 8 | |
| 12438144 | Code of Hammurabi | the first written code, developed in Babylonia about 2000 BC. | 9 | |
| 12438145 | Hieroglyphs | pictures, characters, or symbols standing for words, ideas, or sounds; ancient Egyptians used instead of an alphabet like ours | 10 | |
| 12438146 | Pharaoh | An Egyptian ruler | 11 | |
| 12438147 | Pyramids | are buildings that have four sides shaped like triangles; the sides come together to form a point at the top | 12 | |
| 12438148 | Sumerians | People who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. | 13 | |
| 12438149 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 14 | |
| 12438150 | Daoism | Religion that believes that people should be able to find happiness and peace within themselves without depending on success and wealth | 15 | |
| 12518987 | Vishnu | the Sustainer | 16 | |
| 12518988 | Shiva | the Destroyer | 17 | |
| 12518989 | Reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions | 18 | |
| 12518990 | Buddha | An Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who renounced his wealth and social position. After becoming 'enlightened' (the meaning of Buddha) he enunciated the principles of Buddhism. (180) | 19 | |
| 12518991 | Nirvana | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation | 20 | |
| 12518992 | Stupas | large dome-shaped shrines | 21 | |
| 12518993 | Muslims | what are the people that follow the islam religion called? | 22 | |
| 12518994 | Muhammad | who do the people of the Islam religion follow? | 23 | |
| 12518995 | Quran | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 24 | |
| 12518996 | Mecca | joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia | 25 | |
| 12518997 | Medina | a city in western Saudi Arabia | 26 | |
| 12518998 | Umma | the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan | 27 | |
| 12518999 | Five Pillars of Islam | beliefe, prayer, charity, fasting and pilgrimage | 28 | |
| 12519000 | Maya | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples | 29 | |
| 12519001 | Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 30 | |
| 12519002 | Byzantine Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 31 | |
| 12519003 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 32 | |
| 12519004 | Paul | (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles | 33 | |
| 12519005 | Pope | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 34 | |
| 12519006 | Real politik | Henry Kissinger's "Bismarckian" philosophy on how the U.S. should look at the world; we are not going to win all the battles; sometimes you have to be practical with your advesaries; | 35 | |
| 12519007 | Hegemony | the domination of one state over its allies | 36 | |
| 12519008 | Pax Romana | the Roman peace | 37 | |
| 12519009 | Tribune | the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne | 38 | |
| 12519010 | Plebian | an ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman republic | 39 | |
| 12519011 | Paterfamilias | the male head of a Roman family or tribe | 40 | |
| 12519012 | Legalism | strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | 41 | |
| 12519013 | Assimilation | the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | 42 | |
| 12519014 | TaNakh | the Jewish scriptures which consist of three divisions--the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings | 43 | |
| 12519015 | Diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel | 44 | |
| 12519016 | Pentecost | (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments | 45 | |
| 12519017 | Sufi | a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam | 46 | |
| 12519018 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 47 |
