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| 6769714952 | Vedas | Collections of hymns, songs, prayers, and rituals honoring the barious gods of the Aryans. | 0 | |
| 6769718840 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 1 | |
| 6769721549 | Aristocracy | hereditary nobility; privileged class; government by nobility; N. aristocrat | 2 | |
| 6769728996 | Artisan | craftsman | 3 | |
| 6769731557 | Civilization | A society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes( | 4 | |
| 6769734134 | Polis | A city-state in ancient Greece. | 5 | |
| 6769736167 | Indo-European | In about the 1500s BCE these people were migrating tribes from present-day southeast Russia. Some traveled to Europe, some to Persia, and some to India. Thus, today many people in Europe, Perisa, and India share some lingustic, cultural, and biological roots. | 6 | |
| 6769741208 | Brahmin | A member of the social class of priests in Aryan society | 7 | |
| 6769743486 | Huns | large nomadic group from northern Asia who invaded territories extending from China to Eastern Europe. They virtually lived on their horses, herding cattle, sheep, and horses as well as hunting. | 8 | |
| 6769746246 | Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 9 | |
| 6769748328 | Monsoon | A seasonal wind. | 10 | |
| 6769749687 | Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family | 11 | |
| 6769754881 | Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds | 12 | |
| 6769760296 | Foraging | searching for food | 13 | |
| 6769761690 | Covenant | A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made. | 14 | |
| 6769763371 | Pharoah | A ruler of ancient Egypt | 15 | |
| 6769768043 | Artifact | Any object made by humans, especially those from an earlier time, such as those excavated by archaeologists | 16 | |
| 6769770560 | Oracle bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 17 | |
| 6769776103 | Silk roads | A system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods. | 18 | |
| 6769778357 | Jati | (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India | 19 | |
| 6769782285 | Steppe | Sparse, dry, treeless grassland | 20 | |
| 6769784656 | Yahweh | Hebrew name for God | 21 | |
| 6769787022 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Great; knowledge based on observation of phenomena in material world | 22 | |
| 6769791244 | Nirvana | The state of englightenment for Buddhists. | 23 | |
| 6769796767 | Mokasha | enlightenment after going through samsara; samsara is part of Hinduism and its believed that if you do something bad you will live over and over until you fufill your duty | 24 | |
| 6769814312 | Karma | A Hindu and Buddhist concept that by doing good to others, good will happen to you (and vise versa) | 25 | |
| 6769819006 | Alexander the great | Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East. | 26 | |
| 6769912037 | Ziggurat | massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mudbricks. It is associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities, but its function is unknown. | 27 | |
| 6769917805 | Disciple | A follower of Jesus | 28 | |
| 6769924225 | Patriarcal | relating to a social group headed by a male family leader | 29 | |
| 6769928358 | Reincarnation | In Hinduism and Buddhism, the process by which a soul is reborn continuously until it achieves perfect understanding | 30 | |
| 6769933614 | Twelve tables | Rome's first code of laws; adopted in 450 B.C. | 31 | |
| 6769946999 | Mandate of heaven | A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 32 | |
| 6769954415 | Geocentric theory | Earth is the center of the universe. Aristotelian. | 33 | |
| 6769961131 | Polytheisim | the belief in many gods. | 34 | |
| 6769963802 | Monotheism | Belief in one God | 35 | |
| 6769966397 | Animisn | Believe that spirits occupy in natural objects | 36 | |
| 6769970342 | Sati | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. | 37 | |
| 6769977229 | Diapora | the dispersion of jews from the homeland | 38 | |
| 6769979640 | Torah | The first five books of Jewish Scripture, which they believe are by Moses, are called this | 39 | |
| 6775982331 | pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church | 40 | |
| 6776000943 | Varna | A caste in the Hindu caste system | 41 | |
| 6776005497 | Ten Commandments | A set of laws for responsible behavior, which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses by God. | 42 | |
| 6776008322 | Stoicism | the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint | 43 | |
| 6776013644 | Neolithic age | "New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture | 44 | |
| 6776014976 | Climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time | 45 | |
| 6776019400 | New Testament | The second part of the Christian Bible, containing descriptions of the life and teachings of Jesus and of his early followers | 46 | |
| 6776021128 | Dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 47 | |
| 6776026825 | Pastrolism | Mode of livelihood based on domestic animal herbs and the use of the products of meat and milk | 48 | |
| 6776028386 | Messiah | "Any expected deliver" | 49 | |
| 6776036686 | Ka'aba | A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine | 50 | |
| 6776048614 | Syncretism | a combination of different forms of belief and practice | 51 | |
| 6776050205 | Hadith | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law. | 52 | |
| 6776053731 | Magna Carta | A charter of liberty and political rights obtained from King John of England by his rebellious barons at Runnymede in 1215. | 53 | |
| 6776058326 | Harem | A household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa, or Asia | 54 | |
| 6776062523 | Daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 55 | |
| 6776065063 | Chivlary | the code of conduct followed by knights during the Middle Ages | 56 | |
| 6776066765 | Mita | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations. | 57 | |
| 6776067988 | Maori | New Zealand indigenous culture established around 800 CE | 58 | |
| 6776069981 | Bakufu | military-style government of the Japanese shogun | 59 | |
| 6776073051 | Khan | A Mongol ruler | 60 | |
| 6776076320 | Serf | A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | 61 | |
| 6776081968 | Parliament | Britain's law-making assembly | 62 | |
| 6776083557 | Kowtow | a Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 63 | |
| 6776087029 | Caravel | a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries. | 64 | |
| 6776089605 | Quipus | A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records | 65 | |
| 6776094781 | Manorilism | Economic and social system in medieval Europe I self-sufficient community in which asserts were bound to the land and work hired to work on the Lords manner or state | 66 | |
| 6776096882 | Zakat | Tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims | 67 | |
| 6776100391 | Lateen sails | Triangular sail on a short mast | 68 | |
| 6776103391 | Quechua | Andean society also known as the Inca | 69 | |
| 6776105461 | Sultan | Muslim ruler | 70 | |
| 6776109094 | Arabesque | ornate design featuring intertwined curves; a ballet position in which one leg is extended in back while the other supports the weight of the body | 71 | |
| 6776126479 | Calpuli | an aztec settlement in which families of different social classes lived and shared the land | 72 | |
| 6776133000 | Toltecs | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice. | 73 | |
| 6776138535 | Ming dynasty | Founded by hongwu and known for its cultural brilliance | 74 | |
| 6793361047 | yuan dynasty | (1279-1368 CE) The dynasty with Mongol rule in China; centralized with bureaucracy but structure is different: Mongols on top->Persian bureaucrats->Chinese bureuacrats. | 75 | |
| 6793691746 | Celadon | porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze | 76 | |
| 6793693891 | Five pillars | Basic rules of Islam. 1. Profession of faith 2. Pray five times a day 3. Give alms (give money) 4. Ramadan fast 5. Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). | 77 | |
| 6793696403 | Foot binding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household. | 78 | |
| 6793702718 | Ayllus | in Incan society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler | 79 | |
| 6793705730 | Fief | land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service | 80 | |
| 6793715929 | Vassal | A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land | 81 | |
| 6793718206 | Jihad | Islamic holy war | 82 | |
| 6793722253 | Shogun | A general who ruled Japan in the emperor's name | 83 | |
| 6793730598 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 84 | |
| 6793732336 | Muslim | A follower of Islam | 85 | |
| 6793735883 | Chimor | Pre‐Incan South American society that fell to Incas in the fifteenth century | 86 | |
| 6793740881 | Bushi | The Feudal Japanese code of honor among the warrior class. | 87 | |
| 6793746096 | Kamikaze | Japanese for "divine wind"; a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea | 88 | |
| 6793751944 | Shariah | The body of law that governs Muslim society | 89 | |
| 6793754173 | Sunni | The largest branch of Islam. After the death of Muhammad, Muslims who accepted Abu Bakr as the first Caliph became known as Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah or "the people of tradition and unification" in order to differentiate them from the Shia, who rejected Abu Bakr's authority in favor of Muhammad's cousin Ali as the next Caliph. | 90 | |
| 6793758585 | Shi'ite | A group of Islamic religion that believes that its religious leader should be chosen based on heredity. | 91 | |
| 6793761579 | Caliph | A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government | 92 | |
| 6793763483 | Umma | The community of all Muslims | 93 | |
| 6793767801 | Allah | Arabic word for God | 94 | |
| 6793770359 | Quran | The holy book of Islam | 95 | |
| 6793773200 | Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. | 96 | |
| 6793775446 | Hijah | the migration of Muhammad an his followers from Mecca to Medina | 97 | |
| 6793778684 | Mosque | Muslim house of worship | 98 | |
| 6793784256 | Seppuku | A Japanese term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai when he had been dishonored. | 99 | |
| 6793786329 | Samuri | highly trained Japanese warriors | 100 | |
| 6793793671 | Creoles | Descendents of Spanish-born but born in Latin America; resented inferior social, political, economic status. | 101 | |
| 6793799020 | Taj Mahal | A beautiful tomb built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan to honor his wife. | 102 | |
| 6793811478 | Mulatto | A person of mixed African and European ancestry | 103 | |
| 6793814531 | Manchus | Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties. | 104 | |
| 6793820194 | Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. | 105 | |
| 6793857694 | Janissaries | Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan | 106 | |
| 6793860498 | Natural laws | laws that govern human nature | 107 | |
| 6793864338 | Boyars | Russian nobility | 108 | |
| 6793867167 | Sovereignty | Supreme power or authority | 109 | |
| 6793869814 | Purdah | Seclusion in their homes imposed on women | 110 | |
| 6793875777 | Guano | Bird droppings used as fertilizer; a major trade item of Peru in the late nineteenth century | 111 | |
| 6793878424 | Suez Canal | A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea | 112 | |
| 6793883209 | Sepoys | Indian troops who served in the British army | 113 | |
| 6793887057 | Manifest destiny | Belief that the US was destined to stretch across the continent; idealistic, sent by God, not for economic or territorial reasons | 114 |
