10132786134 | Egalitarian | believing in the social and economic equality of all people | 0 | |
10132789786 | Catal Huyuk | one of the largest neolithic villages ever discovered | 1 | |
10132789787 | sedentary | not migratory; settled | 2 | |
10132792506 | Agricultural Revolution | a period in which humans began to grow crops instead of gathering plants | 3 | |
10132792507 | subsistence | farming in which only enough food to feed one's family is produced | 4 | |
10132795079 | sustenance | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | 5 | |
10132795080 | Leakeys | Discovered hominids first in east Africa. | 6 | |
10132795081 | Lucy | the first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago. | 7 | |
10132797016 | Sargon of Akkad | 8 | ||
10132797017 | codified | written definitions of crimes and punishment enacted by legislatures and published | 9 | |
10132798955 | theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 10 | |
10132798956 | arable | fit for growing crops | 11 | |
10132799925 | covenant | a binding agreement | 12 | |
10132801070 | Aryan | A member of the Indo-European people who crossed into India around 1500 BC | 13 | |
10132801071 | Rig Vedas | Indo-Aryan work 1400-900BCE with 1028 hymns tot he gods. | 14 | |
10132805642 | Sumer | The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years. | 15 | |
10132806764 | Mandate of Heaven | in Chinese history, the divine approval thought to be the basis of royal authority | 16 | |
10132807918 | Hittites | an Indo-European people who settled in Anatolia around 2000 B.C. | 17 | |
10132810070 | Phoenecians | lived on Mediterranean Sea; built ships; great sailors/traders; 22 letter alphabet | 18 | |
10132810071 | ideology | a system of social or political ideas | 19 | |
10132811361 | Cyrus the Great | king of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC) | 20 | |
10132820158 | Sasanids | The Persian Dynasty that overthrew and succeeded the Parthians | 21 | |
10132820159 | Qanat | an underground canal first built by the ancient Persians | 22 | |
10132821883 | Parthians | Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E. | 23 | |
10132821884 | satraps | Persian administrators, usually members of the royal family, who governed a satrapy. | 24 | |
10132824050 | Shi Huangdi | founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor | 25 | |
10132824741 | Pax Sinica | Chinese peace; under the Han Dynasty, China experienced 400 years of prosperity and stability | 26 | |
10132825840 | Han Fei Zu | 27 | ||
10132825841 | Laozi | A legendary Chinese philosopher of the sixth century B.C.E.; regarded as the founder of Daoism. | 28 | |
10132825842 | Wudi | Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength | 29 | |
10132826795 | Xiongnu | Nomads who lived in the Gobi Desert; invaded China; Wall of China was constructed to keep them out | 30 | |
10132827855 | Five Basic Relationships | Friend and friend, parent and child, husband and wife, elder and young brother, ruler and subject. | 31 | |
10132827856 | Quechua | Incan language | 32 | |
10132828705 | Cuzco | The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru | 33 | |
10132828706 | mita | a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work | 34 | |
10132828707 | quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 35 | |
10132829833 | chinampas | floating farming islands made by the Aztec | 36 | |
10132829834 | Popul Vuh | Mayan creation epic | 37 | |
10132834451 | Battle of Manzikert | Celtic Turks defeated the Byzantines, the Byzantine Empire was lost | 38 | |
10132837173 | iconoclasts | people who opposed the use of icons in worship, Byzantines | 39 | |
10132838698 | Shi'ite | The branch of Islam that holds that the leader of Islam must be a descendant of Muhammad's family | 40 | |
10132838699 | Sunni | a branch of Islam that regards the first four successors of Muhammad as his rightful successors | 41 | |
10132839852 | Sharia | the code of law derived from the Quran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | 42 | |
10132839858 | People of the Book | what Muslims called Christians and Jews which means that they too only believe in one god | 43 | |
10132841636 | hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims | 44 | |
10132841637 | Caliph | A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government | 45 | |
10132843656 | Five Pillars | beliefs that all Muslims needed to carry out: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage | 46 | |
10132843657 | Ka'aba | city containing a shrine to which religious pilgrims came | 47 | |
10132855031 | Neoconfucianism | In postclassical China, a mixture of traditional Confucian and Buddhist beliefs. | 48 | |
10132855837 | scholar gentry | A Chinese social class of learned officeholders and landowners that arose in the Han dynasty. | 49 | |
10132856738 | hegemony | the domination of one state or group over its allies | 50 | |
10132858274 | Pax Mongolica | The period of approximately 150 years of relative peace and stability created by the Mongol Empire. | 51 | |
10132858277 | Kublai Khan | (1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China. | 52 | |
10132860822 | Khanates | Areas of Mongol Empire ruled by different Khans (rulers) after Genghis Khan's death. | 53 | |
10132861554 | Golden Horde | Mongol armies who ruled much of medieval Russia | 54 | |
10132876887 | primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | 55 | |
10132876888 | fief | land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service | 56 | |
10132877990 | Holy Roman Empire | the lands ruled by Charlemagne, Germany | 57 | |
10132879586 | Charlemagne | king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor | 58 | |
10132880669 | manorialsim | 59 | ||
10132883553 | lay invesititure | 60 | ||
10132884483 | vassal | A knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land | 61 | |
10132886926 | Justinian's Code | a law code published by the Byzantine emperor Justinian | 62 | |
10132887711 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university. | 63 |
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