7260017664 | artisan | a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand | 0 | |
7260019117 | nomad | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. | 1 | |
7260021468 | babylon | A city in ancient Mesopotamia, famed for its hanging gardens (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) and for the sensual lifestyle of its people. Note: The Jews were taken captive into Babylon in the sixth century b.c | ![]() | 2 |
7260023449 | hammurabi | 18th century bc, king of Babylonia; promulgator of one of the earliest known codes of law. Hammurabi in Culture. | 3 | |
7260024994 | assyria | Assyria was a major Mesopotamian East Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. ... Assyria is named after its original capital, the ancient city of Aššur, which dates to c. 2600 BC, originally one of a number of Akkadian city states in Mesopotamia. | 4 | |
7260024995 | kush | The Kushite era of rule in Nubia was established after the Bronze Age collapse and the disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt. | ![]() | 5 |
7260028307 | nubia | he Nubians (Egyptian for 'gold', due to the abundance of this precious metal in their lands), have had an uneasy relationship with the Egyptians over the millennia. At times, they were seen as allies of the Egyptians, while at other times they were seen as the wretched enemies. | ![]() | 6 |
7260042162 | Indus river valley civilization (harappa) | The Indus cities are noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large non-residential buildings. The people of the Indus Civilization achieved great accuracy in measuring length, mass, and time. They were among the first to develop a system of uniform weights and measures. The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa | ![]() | 7 |
7260044503 | Mohenjo Daro | it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete | ![]() | 8 |
7260054720 | cuneiform | one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians | ![]() | 9 |
7260085887 | sumer | Sumer was the first urban civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia | ![]() | 10 |
7260092891 | huang he (yellow river) | Chinese refer to the Yellow river as "the Mother River" and "the Cradle of Chinese Civilization". That is because the Yellow River was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilizations in the Xia (2100-1600 BC) and Shang (1600-1046 BC) eras — the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. | ![]() | 11 |
7260109770 | ideographic | something that uses a symbol to describe it without a word or sound | 12 | |
7260110617 | shang dynasty | ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, succeeding the Xia dynasty. earliest dynasty of traditional Chinese history supported by archaeological evidence. | ![]() | 13 |
7260123228 | Xia dynasty | is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese history | ![]() | 14 |
7260148102 | Mandate of Heaven | is a Chinese political and religious doctrine used to justify the rule of the Emperor of China. According to this belief, heaven (天, Tian)—which embodies the natural order and will of the universe—bestows the mandate on a just ruler, the Son of Heaven. If a ruler was overthrown, this was interpreted as an indication that the ruler was unworthy, and had lost the mandate. It was also a common belief that natural disasters such as famine and flood were signs of heaven's displeasure with the ruler, so there would often be revolts following major disasters as citizens saw these as signs that the Mandate of Heaven had been withdrawn | ![]() | 15 |
7260150332 | phoenician | 1050 BC, a Phoenician alphabet was used for the writing of Phoenician.[5][6] It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures | ![]() | 16 |
7260157051 | bureaucracy | The job of a bureaucrat is to implement government policy, to take the laws and decisions made by elected officials and put them into practice. Some bureaucrats implement policy by writing rules and regulations, whereas others administer policies directly to people | 17 | |
7260179335 | pastoralism | Pastoralism is the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry: the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, and sheep. "Pastoralism" generally has a mobile aspect; moving the herds in search of fresh pasture and water | 18 | |
7260184843 | Neolithic Revolution | Neolithic Revolution or Neolithic Demographic Transition, sometimes called the Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement | ![]() | 19 |
7260187010 | patriarchy | a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line. | ![]() | 20 |
7260193877 | polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god | ![]() | 21 |
7260195283 | monotheistic | relating to or characterized by the belief that there is only one God | ![]() | 22 |
7260196479 | civilization | societies w/ enough economic surplus to form divisons of labor and social hierarchy involving significant inequalities. (emergence of formal politics) | 23 | |
7260245109 | land bridge theory | Theories to explain the colonization of the New World—the last great habitable landmass to be occupied by humans—focus on the Bering land bridge, or Beringia, which emerged between Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age. | ![]() | 24 |
7321425364 | dao | to relate to Yin and Yang avoiding excess and appreciating the balance of opposites | 25 | |
7321425365 | shi huangdi | founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor | 26 | |
7321425366 | legalism | the belief that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled | 27 | |
7321425367 | Analects of Confucianism | collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius' followers. | 28 | |
7321425368 | Silk Roads | The ancient trade routes that connected Europe with China | 29 | |
7321425369 | Alexander the Great | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia | 30 | |
7321425370 | sanskrit | written language developed by the Aryans | 31 | |
7321425371 | vedas | Ancient Sanskrit writings that are the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism. | 32 | |
7321425372 | Mahabharata | Poem that tells the story of a great war | 33 | |
7321425373 | ramayana | The Hindu epic about Prince Rama, defender of good | 34 | |
7321425374 | upanishads | Indian mystical and philosophical works, written between 800 and 400 B.C.E. | 35 | |
7321425375 | indra | God of thunder and lightning/strength | 36 | |
7321425376 | Chandragupta Maurya | military leader who seized control of the entire northern part of India. first mauryan ruler | 37 | |
7321425377 | Mauryan Dynasty | In the wake of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bce, Chandragupta (or Chandragupta ), founder of the , carved out the majority of an that encompassed most of the Indian subcontinent | 38 | |
7321425378 | ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism | 39 | |
7321425379 | dharma | In Hindu belief, a person's religious and moral duties | 40 | |
7321425380 | kushans | pushed into Central India from the Northwest the greatest kushan kanishka converted to Buddhism but actually hurt this religions popularity in India by associating it with foreign rule | 41 | |
7321425381 | Gupta Dynasty | (ad 320-500)ruled indias golden age in science, art, and literature | 42 | |
7321425382 | kautilya | Chandragupta's advisor (chief minister) | 43 | |
7321425383 | Brahmanism | The early religious beliefs of the Aryan peoples in India, also the highest caste | 44 | |
7321425384 | Rig-Veda | The Rig Veda is a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted among the four Hindu religious texts known as the Vedas. The Rig Veda was likely composed between roughly 1700-1100 BCE, making it one of the oldest texts of any Indo-Iranian language, one of the world's oldest religious texts. | 45 | |
7321425385 | gurus | hindu teachers | 46 | |
7321425386 | Vishnu | the brahman, later Hindu, god of sacrifice; widely worshiped. the preserver | 47 | |
7321425387 | shiva | A Hindu god considered the destroyer of the world. | 48 | |
7321425388 | Nirvana | world beyond existence itself | 49 | |
7321425389 | stupas | Buddhist shrines | 50 | |
7329478503 | monsoons | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons crucial for farming | 51 | |
7329478504 | Aryans | hunting and herding peoples originally from asia | 52 | |
7330726090 | shang dynasty | monopolize bronze production in the Yellow River Valley | 53 | |
7330726091 | Shang Dynasty | built a powerful military with bronze weapons and chariots | 54 | |
7330726092 | Shang Dynasty | came into conflict with and replaced by zhou the Dynasty | 55 | |
7330726093 | zhou dynasty | first to claim that heaven had transferred its mandate to their Dynasty | 56 | |
7330726094 | zhou dynasty | created a feudal system of government where Lord's received land and return from military service to the king | 57 | |
7330726095 | zhou dynasty | Dynasty spreads from Yellow River down into the Yangtze River now China is called the Middle Kingdom | 58 | |
7330726096 | zhou dynasty | increased cultural Unity by Banning Human Sacrifice introducing Mandarin Chinese as a national spoken language in Chopsticks are introduced in order to encourage a code of politeness at meals | 59 | |
7330726097 | zhou dynasty | iron working is introduced into China | 60 | |
7330726098 | zhou dynasty | Confucius teaches do unto others as your status and there's dictate | 61 | |
7330726099 | zhou dynasty | scientists create an accurate 365 and a half day calendar | 62 | |
7330726100 | zhou dynasty | Civil War erupts into the era of the Warring States | 63 | |
7330726101 | qin dynasty | shi huangdi brutally seizes power increase China's first strong centralized government | 64 | |
7330726102 | qin dynasty | a series of regional defensive works are joined together to create the beginnings of the Great Wall | 65 | |
7330726103 | qin dynasty | peasant revolts | 66 | |
7330726104 | Han Dynasty | spreads into Korea Indo China and Central Asia | 67 | |
7330726105 | Han Dynasty | using the Silk Roads China encourages trade with India the Middle East and Rome | 68 | |
7330726106 | Han Dynasty | wu ti rules over peaceful Chinese Empire | 69 | |
7330726107 | han dynasty | Civil Service examinations for the bureaucracy are established | 70 | |
7330726108 | han dynasty | encourages practice/worship of confucianism | 71 | |
7330726109 | han dynasty | technological innovation is at its height | 72 | |
7330726110 | the huns | nomadic pastoralist people who invaded southeastern Europe c. ad 370 and during the next seven decades built up an enormous empire | 73 | |
7330726111 | how is patriarchy evident in india | the great epic stress the control of husband and father they also recognize women's independent contributions Indian culture often featured strong and clever woman and goddesses patriarchy was evident in Indian law and religion | 74 | |
7330726112 | with whom/ what did india trade | Indians traded cotton and silk ties drugs gold and Ivory their trade with Southeast Asia included transport in manufactured goods and trappings of Indian culture from the Middle East and Roman Empires they brought back Pottery wine metal slave and gold | 75 | |
7330726113 | Buddhism # of followers | 500 mil | 76 | |
7330726114 | name of buddhism dentiy | none but some believed buddha to be a god | 77 | |
7330726115 | buddhism holy book | sutras/ perfection of wisdoms | 78 | |
7330726116 | buddhism leadership | monks and nuns ( gave women a second option) | 79 | |
7330726117 | buddhism beliefs | suffering is life comes from greed can overcome by following the Eightfold Path they believe in meditation moderation reincarnation and they definitely don't believe in a caste system | 80 | |
7330726118 | Hinduism number of followers | 900 million | 81 | |
7330726119 | name of Hinduism deity | Brahma the creator of the world | 82 | |
7330726120 | founder of Hinduism | we don't know | 83 | |
7330726121 | Hinduism holy book | the four Vedas | 84 | |
7330726122 | Hinduism leadership | Brahmin priest and gurus | 85 | |
7330726123 | Hinduism Basic Beliefs | follow your Dharma to get good Karma then be reincarnated up to Moksha also Moksha is like the Hinduism term for Nirvana and it's the release of the cycle and to be reincarnated into the universe to be one with the universe | 86 | |
7330726124 | Confucianism number of followers | unknown | 87 | |
7330726125 | Confucianism deity | some people believe that was Confucius but Confucius himself didn't know of an afterlife or if there's gods and he didn't care | 88 | |
7330726126 | Confucianism holy book | the Antics or the five Confucian classics (book of documents) | 89 | |
7330726127 | Confucianism leadership | confusion scholar-gentry carried out social welfare measures, taught in private schools, helped negotiate minor legal disputes, supervised community projects, maintained local law and order, conducted ceremonies, assisted in the government's collection of taxes, and preached moral teachings. | 90 | |
7330726128 | Confucianism basic beliefs | parent and child equals love and respect husband and wife equals just an obedient older brother and younger brother equals benevolence and reverent Friend and Friend equals equality | 91 | |
7330726129 | Shi Huangdi | who concered the warring states | 92 | |
7330726130 | shi huangdi | use conscripted peasants to build roads and canals that tied northern and southern China together | 93 | |
7330726131 | liu bang (peasant general) | founder of han dynasty | 94 | |
7330726132 | 3 submissions (women) | submit to father then husband then son | 95 | |
7330726133 | ancestor worship | honoring ancestors through rituals, such as offering food and wine to the dead | 96 | |
7330726134 | chang'an | where Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynastyheld his imperial court, and constructed his massive mausoleum guarded by the famedTerracotta Army.(capital) | 97 | |
7330726135 | patraliputra | Its position helped it dominate the riverine trade of theIndo-Gangetic plains duringMagadha's early imperial period. It was a great centre of trade and commerce and attracted merchants and intellectuals | 98 | |
7330726136 | han | advanced in steel weapons paper horse collar water mill compass porcelain | 99 | |
7330726137 | han | forced to hire mercenaries who are loyal only to money which also increase the budget crisis government weakness led to nomadic invasions Civil Wars and peasant uprising leading to the fall of the empire | 100 | |
7330726138 | the varnas classes | first there is the Brahman this is the religious aspect then there was the kshatriya and I was supposed to cool like the rulers and Nobles Warriors and there was the vaishya these were the farmers that were land owners also merchants and artisans then there was the sudra and this was the majority of the population that were servants or labors and outside the caste system wore The Untouchables that did the work that no one else wanted to do | 101 | |
7330726067 | Dharma (Buddhism) | teachings of Buddha | 102 |
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