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2999580741Legalismstrict adherence or the principle of strict adherence to law or prescription especially to the letter rather than the spirit0
2999580742ConfucianismThe system of ethics education and statesmanship top by Confucius and his disciples stressing love for humanity ancestor worship reverence for parents and harmony in thought and conduct1
2999580743DaoismBelief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only with rejection of supernatural revelation2
2999580744Siddhartha GautamaIndian religious leader founder of Buddhism3
2999580745ZoroastrianismIn a rainy and religion founded 600 BC by Zorro Astor the principal beliefs of which are in the existence of a supreme deity Ahura Mazda and in a cosmic struggle between a spirit of good Spenta Mainyu you and a spirit of evil Angra Mainyu4
2999580746JudiasmThe monotheistic religion of the Jews having it ethical ceremonial and legal foundation in the perception of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the Talmud5
2999580747Persian EmpireThe Persian empire is any of a series of imperial Dynasty centered in Persia The first of these was established by Cyrus the Degrate in 550 BC with the Persian conquest of media Lydia and Babylonia6
2999580748Athenian DemocracyDeveloped around the fifth century BC in the Greek city state of Athans comprising the city of Athans and the surrounding territory of attic and is the first known democracy in the world7
2999580749Greco-Persian WarsSeries of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and Greek city states8
2999580750Hellenistic eraA period in history defined as the time between the death of Alexander the great and the rise of Roman domination9
2999580751Alexander the GreatKing of the ancient Greek kingdom Macedon10
2999580752Pax RomanaThe piece that existed between nationality is within the Roman empire11
2999580753Qin ShihaungdiKing of the state of shin who conquered all of their warring states and united China12
2999580754Han DynastyAfter the Civil War that followed the death of Qin Shihaungdi China was reunited under the rule of the Han Dynasty13
2999580755Mauryan EmpireAlso known as the Mauryan empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India14
2999580756AshokaAn Indian emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty15
2999580757ChiefdomInherited positions of power and privalage introduced a more distinct elenent of inequality, never took advantage of their powers16
2999580758CatalhuyukA society or a village in south turkey which retained much of the social and gender equality.17
2999580759Pastoral SocietiesA nomatic group of people who travel with a herd of demesticated animals.18
2999580760Secondary products revolutionInnovations for new uses of domesticated animals beyond their meat. Milk wool manure19
2999580761Bantu MigrationBantu speaking people moved east and south over a millennia, taking with them their agricultural, cattle raising, and later iron working skills as well as their language20
2999580762DiffusionRefers to the gradual spread of agricultural techniques and perhaps of the plants and animals themselves21
2999580763Fertile Crescentan area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished22
2999580764Gobekli TepeFirst temple mostly for cerimonial sites23
2999580765The original affluent societyGathering and hunting people frequently worked fewer hours to mert their material needs than did people in agricultural or industrial societies24
2999580766Norte Chico25 urban centers emerged in this area called norte chico largest was caral25
2999580767Indus Valley civilizationA series of small republics rule by priests an esrly form of the cast system26
2999580768Olmec civilizationAlong cast of the gulf of mexico arose from a series of competing cheifsoms27
2999580769Central Asian/ Oxus civilizationTwo centuries a number of substantial fortified centers had emerged distinctive cultural style expressed in architecture ceramics barrio tech knowledge he seals not developed a literate culture28
2999580770Mohenjo DaraMohenjo dara sister city if harappa richky built houses, grid line pattern of streets29
2999580771Code of HammurabiLaws set by Hammurabi30
2999580772PatriarchryRegarding men as superior to women and sons preferable to daughters31
2999580773Rise of the stateStates held ancient civilizations together organized around particular cities or large territories32
2999580774Egypt the gift of the nileThe Nile rose predictably every year to bring the soil and water that nurtured a rich Egyptian agricultural33
2999580775NubiaTraded with Egypt in Africa34
2999580776EgalitarianBeliefs of you quality inn all people35

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