9918913002 | Abraham | Father of Judaism | 0 | |
9918913003 | Hatshepsut | First female Egyptian pharoah | 1 | |
9918913004 | Aryans | Early Indian migrants who mixed/fought with the Dravidians | 2 | |
9918913005 | Dravidians | Early Indian inhabitants who fought and intermarried with the Aryans | 3 | |
9918913006 | Olmec | First Mesoamerican civilization who practiced human sacrifice. Their descendants were the Mayans and the Aztecs. | 4 | |
9918913007 | Phoenicians | Shipbuilding society that created the first alphabet | 5 | |
9918913008 | Bantus | African migrators that influenced African languages and migrated throughout Africa, settling especially in West Africa | 6 | |
9918913009 | Cyrus | First Persian Ruler | 7 | |
9918913010 | Darius | Best/strongest Persian Ruler | 8 | |
9918913011 | Xerxes | Third Achaemenid Persian ruler who couldn't completely unify Persia because of internal crises and external threats. | 9 | |
9918913012 | Confucius | Founder of Confucianism | 10 | |
9918913013 | Laozi | Founder of Daoism | 11 | |
9918913014 | Han Feizi | Chinese legalist | 12 | |
9918913015 | Xongnu | Central Asian nomads who policed the Silk Roads | 13 | |
9918913016 | Ashoka Maurya | Mauryan leader who started out as a conqueror then turned to Buddhism after witnessing death. He put Buddhist edicts on pillars and allowed the movements of missionaries. | 14 | |
9918913017 | Chandra Gupta | Gupta emperor (Hindu) | 15 | |
9918913018 | Siddhartha Gautama | The Buddha. He witnessed suffering, then meditated under a tree until he figured out that life was suffering, and the key to stop suffering was to stop desiring. | 16 | |
9918913019 | Pericles | Important Athenian leader who ordered the building of the Parthenon | 17 | |
9918913020 | Alexander the Great | Macedonian conqueror who took over the Achaemenid Persian empire. | 18 | |
9918913021 | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle | 3 Greek philosophers. Aristotle was very scientific as well. | 19 | |
9918913022 | Julius Caesar | Roman leader who attempted (failing, though) to make the Roman republic into an empire because of its uncontrollable size. | 20 | |
9918913023 | Augustus Caesar | First Roman emperor who transformed the republic into an empire. | 21 | |
9918913024 | Jesus Christ | Founder of Christianity, believed to have been crucified by the Roman empire. | 22 | |
9918913025 | Paul of Tarsus | Spreader of Christianity. He went to many places throughout Europe to preach the word of the Christian God. | 23 | |
9918913026 | Constantine | Christian emperor of Rome who established Christianity within Rome and founded the city of Constantinople. | 24 | |
9918913027 | Diocletian | Roman emperor who dealt with the uncontrollable size of Rome by setting up co emperors to rule Rome and keep it unified. | 25 | |
9918913028 | Muhammad | The great Islamic prophet, who received dreams from Allah and preached them. | 26 | |
9918913029 | Mansa Musa | Wealthiest man who ever lived. He was a Mali emperor. On his hajj to Mecca he gave out so much gold that he ended up causing hyperinflation. | 27 | |
9918913030 | Temujin, Chinggis Khan, Genghis Khan | Mongol conqueror who created the largest empire in the world, spanning from Eastern Europe to China. | 28 | |
9918913031 | Marco Polo | Italian traveler who served in Kublai Khan's court. | 29 | |
9918913032 | Ibn Battuta | Islamic traveler who served in government positions to preach about Islam in places that didn't have that much Islamic influence. | 30 | |
9918913033 | Mehmed II | Ottoman conqueror who took over Byzantium and renamed Constantinople Istanbul. | 31 | |
9918913034 | Justinian | Byzantine ruler who codified Roman law for the first time. | 32 | |
9918913035 | Theodora | Justinian's wife, who was extremely intelligent. | 33 | |
9918913036 | Charlemagne | Ruler of the Carolingian empire, the one unifying empire during the Middle Ages. | 34 | |
9918913037 | St. Thomas Aquinas | Established the study of scholasticism and how to answer questions and debates. | 35 | |
9918913038 | Pope Urban II | Called for the first Crusade. | 36 | |
9918913039 | Toltecs | Mesoamerican society, ancestors of the Aztecs. | 37 | |
9918913040 | Aztecs | Mesoamerican society who settled in Mexico, descendants of the Maya. They established their capital in modern Mexico City. | 38 | |
9918913041 | Montezuma | Ruler of the Aztec empire during its contact with Europe. | 39 | |
9918913042 | Petrarch | Father of humanism | 40 | |
9918913043 | Boccaccio | Poet from Italy who wrote about merchants | 41 | |
9918913044 | Johannes Gutenberg | Printing press | 42 | |
9918913045 | Machiavelli | "Better to be feared than loved." | 43 | |
9918913046 | Erasmus | Humanist who saw problems with the Catholic Church | 44 | |
9918913047 | Luther/Calvin | 95 theses; CRC | 45 | |
9918913048 | Aristocracy | upper class have power | 46 | |
9918913049 | barbarian | primitive, uses violence for most things | 47 | |
9918913050 | brahmins | Hindu priestly class | 48 | |
9918913051 | Civilizations/advanced societies | Society with specific culture/way of life | 49 | |
9918913052 | Complex institutions | Specialization of trade | 50 | |
9918913053 | dharma | Hindu belief of strictly obeying laws, basis of Buddhism, cosmic order | 51 | |
9918913054 | Diversified food supply | variety of food | 52 | |
9918913055 | dynastic cycle | rise and fall of Chinese dynasties | 53 | |
9918913056 | egalitarian | women have more rights/say | 54 | |
9918913057 | ethical/legal codes | written law codes (Hammurabi) | 55 | |
9918913058 | irrigation systems | artificial application of water to the soil | 56 | |
9918913059 | karma | actions decide on fate after death, whether you'll be reborn, and what will happen when you're reborn | 57 | |
9918913060 | pastoral/pastoralism | raising livestock for food | 58 | |
9918913061 | record keeping | notes about activities/events | 59 | |
9918913062 | secular | get rid of stuff without religion | 60 | |
9918913063 | settled populations | people who were settled based on agriculture | 61 | |
9918913064 | syncretism | religions and cultures coexist | 62 | |
9918913065 | theocracy | God ruling (emperors as "gods") | 63 | |
9918913066 | Ancestor veneration | respect of ancestors | 64 | |
9918913067 | caste system | intense social hierarchy of India | 65 | |
9918913068 | dao | the way of nature (China) | 66 | |
9918913069 | diaspora | people settle far from their homeland | 67 | |
9918913070 | hellenistic | era after Alexander the Great conquered Greece | 68 | |
9918913071 | manifestations | clinical effects/signs of disease | 69 | |
9918913072 | rajas | term for hindu kings | 70 | |
9918913073 | republic | people vote for leaders | 71 | |
9918913074 | sanskrit scriptures | revealed part of Hindu religion | 72 | |
9918913075 | Shamanism | Meditation between visible & spirit world through shamans | 73 | |
9918913076 | social harmony | Societal accord in Confucianism | 74 | |
9918913077 | Bushido | Japanese samurai code of honor | 75 | |
9918913078 | fiefs | estate of land owned through feudalism | 76 | |
9918913079 | gentry | scholarly class in China, got land for being gov't officials | 77 | |
9918913080 | Grand Canal | built during the Sui Dynasty, sped up travel/commerce | 78 | |
9918913081 | Guilds | Groups of craftsmen/merchants | 79 | |
9918913082 | Kow tow | touching forehead to ground as a sign of submission | 80 | |
9918913083 | Manorialism | agricultural economy of Middle Ages | 81 | |
9918913084 | Quipu | Incan mnemonic device to record events | 82 | |
9918913091 | Worked on lords' land for protection | 83 | ||
9918913085 | Sharia | Islamic holy law of both Quran and other things | 84 | |
9918913086 | Shia | Muslim minority | 85 | |
9918913087 | Southernization | Spread of Asian beliefs | 86 | |
9918913088 | Swahili | city-state society in E. Africa, active in trade | 87 | |
9918913089 | tax farming | taxes on agriculture | 88 | |
9918913090 | synthesized | bringing together different elements | 89 |
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