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| 6581995203 | Abbasid | cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty (750-1528) that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid |  | 0 |
| 6582006655 | Abolitionism | anti-slavery movement | 1 | |
| 6582008342 | Absolutism | the political philosophy that stressed the divine right theory fo kingship: the French king Louis XIV was the classic example | 2 | |
| 6582014855 | Abu Bakr | first caliph after the death of Muhammad | 3 | |
| 6582018484 | Achaemenid Empire | first great Persian empire (558-330 BCE), which began under Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius |  | 4 |
| 6582026330 | Aeschylus | Greek tragedian, author of the Oresteia | 5 | |
| 6582028137 | Age Grades | Bantu institution in which individuals of roughly the same age carried out communal tasks appropriate for that age | 6 | |
| 6582033164 | Ahimsa | Jain term for the principle of nonviolence to other living things or their souls | 7 | |
| 6582037671 | Ahura Mazda | main god of Zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was perceived to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu | 8 | |
| 6582043829 | Al-Andalus | Islamic Spain |  | 9 |
| 6582050834 | Ali'i Nui | Hawaiian class of high chiefs | 10 | |
| 6582050835 | Allah | the God of the monotheistic religion of Islam | 11 | |
| 6582054855 | Angkor | Southeast Asian Khmer kingdom (889-1432) that was centered on the temple cities of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat | 12 | |
| 6582064529 | Anti-Semitism | term coined in the late nineteenth century that was associated with a prejudice against Jews and the political, social, and economic actions taken against them | 13 | |
| 6582068874 | Antonianism | African syncretic religion, founded by Dona Beatriz, that taught that Jesus Christ was a black African and that heaven was for Africans | 14 | |
| 6582074428 | Apartheid | South African system of "separateness" that was implemented in 1948 and that maintained the black majority in a position of political, social, and economic subordination | 15 | |
| 6582084047 | Appeasement | British and French policy in the 1930s that tried to maintain peace in Europe in the face of German aggression by making concessions | 16 | |
| 6582089318 | Arianism | early Christian heresy that centered on the teaching of Arius (250-336 CE) and contained the belief that Jesus was a mortal human being and not coeternal with God; Arianism was the focus of Council of Nicaea | 17 | |
| 6582099126 | Artha | Hindu concept for the pursuit of economic well-being and honest prosperity | 18 | |
| 6582102965 | Arthashastra | ancient Indian political treatise from the time of Chandragupta Maurya; its authorship was traditionally ascribed to Kautilya, and it stressed that was was inevitable | 19 | |
| 6582112625 | Aryans | Indo-European migrants who settled in India after 1500 BCE; their union with indigenous Dravidians formed the basis of Hinduism | 20 | |
| 6582124347 | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | the regional organization established in 1967 by Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines; the organization was designed to promote economic progress and political stability; it later become a free-trade zone | 21 | |
| 6582134349 | Assyrians | southwest Asian people who built an empire that reached its height during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE; it was known for a powerful army and a well-structured state | 22 | |
| 6582144398 | Astrolabe | navigational instrument for determining latitude | 23 | |
| 6582146502 | Aten | monotheistic god of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1335 BCE) and a very early example of monotheism | 24 | |
| 6582151041 | Audiencias | Spanish courts in Latin America | 25 | |
| 6582153396 | Australopithecus | "southern ape," oldest known ancestor of humans; it lived from around four million down to around one million years ago, and it could walk on hind legs, freeing up hands for use of simple tools | 26 | |
| 6582160296 | Austronesians | people who as early as 2000 BCE began to explore and settle islands of the Pacific Ocean basin | 27 | |
| 6582164131 | Avesta | book that contains the holy writings of Zoroastrainism | 28 | |
| 6582167314 | Axum | African kingdom centered in Ethiopia that became and early and lasting center of Coptic Christianity |  | 29 |
| 6582175321 | Aztec Empire | central American empire constructed by the Mexica and expanded greatly during the fifteenth century during the reigns of Itzcoatl and Motecuoma I |  | 30 |
| 6582718566 | Balfour Declaration | British declaration from 1917 that supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine | 31 | |
| 6582982597 | Bantu | African peoples who originally lived in the area of present-day Nigeria; around 2000 BCE, they began a centuries-long migration that took them to most of sub-Saharan Africa; the Bantu were very influential, especially linguistically |  | 32 |
| 6582991020 | Bedouins | Nomadic Arabic tribespeople | 33 | |
| 6582992653 | Benefice | a grant from a lord to a vassal, usually consisting of land, which supported the vassal and signified the relationship between the two | 34 | |
| 6582997269 | Berlin Conference | meeting organized by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1184-1885 that provided the justification for European colonization of Africa | 35 | |
| 6583003027 | Bezant | Byzantine gold coin that served as the standard currency of the Mediterranean basin from the sixth through the twelfth century | 36 | |
| 6583007286 | Bhagavad Gita | "song of the lord," an Indian short poetic work drawn from the lengthy Mahabharata that was finished around 400 CE and that expressed basic Hindu concepts such as karma and dharma | 37 | |
| 6583023614 | Bhakti | Indian movement that attempted to transcend the differences between Hinduism and Islam | 38 | |
| 6583027192 | Black Hand | pre-WW1 secret Serbian society; one of its members, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and provided the spark for the outbreak of the Great War | 39 | |
| 6583039355 | Blitzkrieg | German style of rapid attach through the use of armor and air power that was used in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France in 1939-1940 | 40 | |
| 6583044543 | Bodhisattvas | Buddhist concept regarding individuals who had reached enlightenment but who stayed in this world to help people | 41 | |
| 6583054706 | Bolshevik | Russian communist party headed by Lenin | 42 | |
| 6583059226 | Bourgeoisie | middle class in modern industrial society | 43 | |
| 6583063052 | Brahmins | Hindu caste of priests | 44 | |
| 6583068379 | Brezhnev Doctrine | policy developed by Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982) that claimed for the Soviet Union the right to invade any socialist country faced with internal or external enemies; the doctrine was best expressed in Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia | 45 | |
| 6583077042 | Buddha | the "enlightened one," the term applied to Siddhartha Gautama after his discoveries that would form the foundation of Buddhism | 46 | |
| 6583081977 | Bunraku | Japanese puppet theater | 47 | |
| 6583085647 | Byzantine Empire | long-lasting empire centered at Constantinople; it grew out of the end of the Roman empire, carried the legacy of Roman greatness, and was the only classical society to survive into the early modern age; it reached its early peak during the reign of Justinian |  | 48 |
| 6583097034 | Caesaropapism | concept relating to the mixing of political and religious authority, as with the Roman emperors, that was central to the church-versus-state controversy in medieval Europe | 49 | |
| 6583107305 | Cahokia | large structure in modern Illinois that was constructed by the mound-building peoples; it was the third largest structure in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans |  | 50 |
| 6583112506 | Caliph | "deputy," Islamic leader after the death of Muhamad | 51 | |
| 6583115593 | Capetian | Early French that started with Hugh Capet |  | 52 |
| 6583118306 | Capitalism | an economic system with origins in early modern Europe in which private parties make their goods and services available on a free market | 53 | |
| 6583135624 | Capitulation | highly unfavorable trading agreements that the Ottoman Turks signed with the Europeans in the nineteenth century that symbolized the decline of the Ottomans | 54 | |
| 6583140643 | Carolingians | Germanic dynasty that was named after its most famous member, Charlemagne | 55 | |
| 6583143282 | Carthage | north African kingdom, main rival to early Roman expansion, that was defeated by Rome in the Punic Wars |  | 56 |
| 6583148979 | Catal Huyuk | important Neolithic settlement in Anatolia |  | 57 |
| 6583151429 | Cathars | medieval heretics, also known as the Albigensian, who considered the material world evil; their followers renounced wealth and marriage and promoted an ascetic existence | 58 | |
| 6583275128 | Catholic Reformation | sixteenth-century Catholic attempt to cure internal ills and confront Protestantism; it was inspired by the reforms of the Council of Trent and the actions of the Jesuits | 59 | |
| 6583318297 | Caudillos | Latin American term for nineteenth-century local military leaders | 60 | |
| 6583320418 | Central Powers | WW1 term for the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire | 61 | |
| 6583327354 | Chaghatai | one of Chinggis Khan's sons, whose descendants ruled central Asia through the Chaghatai khanate | 62 | |
| 6583335420 | Chan Buddhism | influential branch of Buddhism in China, with an emphasis on intuition and sudden flashes of insight instead of textual study | 63 | |
| 6583516236 | Chanchan | capital of the pre-Incan, south American Chimu society that supported a large population of fifty thousand | 64 | |
| 6583521172 | Chavin Cult | mysterious but very popular South American religion (1000-300 BCE) | 65 | |
| 6605108473 | Chimu | pre-Incan South American society that fell to Incas in the fifteenth century | 66 | |
| 6605118223 | Chinampas | European medieval code of conduct | 67 |
